Quartet Midnight Sun

Kvartetti Keskiyon Aurinko ~ Cuarteto Sol de Medianoche

Quartet Midnight Sun 

 

Tamperelainen neljän nuoren naisen perustama Kvartetti Keskiyön Aurinko ponkaisi yleisön tietoisuuteen vuonna 2007 soittaessaan Maailmantango -festivaalin oheisohjelmistossa. Tämä jälkeen orkesteri on kerännyt onnistuneita esiintymiskokemuksia mm. Kulttuurikeskus Telakalta ja erilaisista hyväntekeväisyystilaisuuksista. Kvartetti on erikoistunut soittamaan Astor Piazzollan tangoja, mutta ohjelmistoon kuuluu myös tunnettuja suomalaisia tangoja uusin sovituksin.
Yhtye on saanut kiitosta ja huomiota erityisesti tuoreesta ja tunteikkaasta soitto-otteesta, omaperäistä sovituksista sekä Piazzolla-yhtyeeksi niin ikään erikoislaatuisesta soitinvalikoimasta. Kokoonpano: Mari Martikainen (tenorisaksofoni, huilu), Iida Savolainen (alttoviulu), Suvi Kallio (klassinen kitara, kaksirivinen harmonikka), Johanna Repo (piano

 

Our quartet was founded in summer 2007. The members are: Mari Martikainen - tenor saxophone and flute, Iida Savolainen / Marja Erdogan - viola, Johanna Repo - piano and Suvi Kallio - accoustic guitar and diatonic accordion.

 

Our programme mainly consists of Astor Piazzolla`s compositions but we also play Finnish tangos and jazz standards. The simple idea of our group is to make original and challenging arrangements of music that we love and hold in great value. We all contribute to our arrangements so everyone`s ideas will be heard.

News!

On 30th of May 2009 The Quartet Midnight Sun will perform again at the old city library park stage

This time the event is organized by the local organizations of the partie Green League of Finland. There will be talk about and by the candidates for the European parliament elections and lots of good, interesting, sunny music, including ours:) Welcome everyone! The event starts at 15.00 and continues up till around 20.00.

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And now we are waiting for Suvi to come back from her exchange period in Lisbon. We have plenty of new ideas and plans for the future...

21.11.2008 A private event in Helsinki

1.11.2008 A private event in Hotel Cumulus

30.10.2008 A private event in Yo-talo

18.10.2008 A private event in Pikkupalatsi

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21.9. 2008 As a part of the main programme at the World of Tango -festival in Tampere

19.9.2008 Performance in the opening ceremony of the festival

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7.8.2008 Our gig at the restaurant Artturi was a part of The Great Nocturnal Happening of Tampere Theatre Festival 2008. The quartet had changed  into a quintet and it really worked.  The magical night with our great audience was noticed even by Aamulehti. 

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8.7. 2008 A private event in Vammala

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22.6.2008 The Quartet`s summer schedule starts nicely on a midsummer afternoon. We will be giving a concert at the cafe in the rosegarden of Hatanpää park . The concert starts at 15.00 Welcome!

 

 

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14.5.2008 The quartet will be performing at the "Surprise me!" -park concert at the old city library park stage in Tampere. The festivities will start at about 15.00. Also a free stage for jamming will be arranged later that night. Come and bring you friends too!

 

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23.3.2008 At the moment we are working on getting something recorded and planning our summer schedule but in the mean while: 9 Apr 08 Quinteto Otra Vez! and Martin Alvarado will be arranging a Concierto del nuevo tango with Jyväskylä Symphony orchestra. Can`t wait.

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20.3.2008 Culture Centre Telakka, "Rock beautiful - Racism ugly"

The quartet performed in this racism fighting event after the magnificent Rumba Tre. The show was the best we ever had, and people there were beautiful. In our last song Vuelvo al Sur we welcomed the talented tenor Martin Alvarado to sing with us and he, as usual, captured the audience instantly. We thank Martin and everyone who came to Telakka that night so much!!! This evening ment a lot to us.

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21.11.2007 Tampere Steiner School benefit concert 

We helped the school raise money for building acoustics to their concert hall by giving a benefit concert. It was a nice experience because we could play totally accoustically. Even accoustic guitar sounded loud and good in that well constructed concert hall.

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20 - 29.9. 2007 Maailmantangofestivaali at Tampere

We took part in this amazing festival as volunteers. Our job was to help the festival artists with soundchecks and bring notestands and mics and plugs to their places between shows. We got to meet wonderful artists and hear everything that was going on in the heads of Finland's top nuevo tango musicians.

On 27 Sep we had our first own show at a restaurant called Tempo Terrace. The concert went well and for us it was a perfect ending to a great festival.