“Many things worked really well at the Tampere Biennale 2024, where the theme was ‘Changing Worlds’. One of those things was coming up with new concepts to augment the traditional concert hall experience,” says Artistic Director Minna Leinonen with satisfaction.
The Tampere Biennale has been held every other spring since 1986, and this year’s festival was thus the 20th. The next edition of the festival will be held on 15–19 April 2026, with composer Minna Leinonen staying on as Artistic Director.
The Tampere Biennale festival of modern art music is held from 10 to 14 April 2024 with concerts at Tampere Hall, in churches, at museums and in clubs around the city centre. The event also has a presence in the heritage landscape around Tammerkoski rapids in the form of urban art and a sound story.
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Curated by Minna Leinonen, the programme features encounters between fantasy and reality, past and present, visible and invisible.
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The programme of the Tampere Biennale has been published. The festival is held in even-numbered years and focuses on Finnish contemporary music. This year’s theme is Mindscapes. The programme features the human voice in its many manifestations: there are serious statements and tragic tales but also playfulness and joie de vivre.
This spring’s edition of the Tampere Biennale had to be cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, but the replacement radio festival, Tampere Biennale 2.0, began on Yle Radio 1 last week and will continue at the Ung Nordisk Musik festival in August.
This spring’s contemporary art music festival Tampere Biennale has unfortunately been cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic. As a substituting programme, however, Tampere Biennale and Yle national public broadcasting company will organize a radio festival, titled Tampere Biennale 2.0.
