Pianist Iiro Rantala and actor Lotta Kuusisto's Vuosirenkaat are intensely spiralling stories about being human, interpretations of where we belong and how we don't belong. Hopes that not everything would be vague and shifting, and that one could be like a juniper: no tendency to split or warp.
Created by artist couple Rantala-Kuusisto, Vuosirenkaat consists of the heartwood of music and the light of texts.
Iiro Rantala, grand piano
Lotta Kuusisto, narrator
Texts: Kari Hotakainen, Timo Parvela, Elo Viding, Pablo Neruda, Claes Andersson and Lotta Kuusisto.
Composers: Egberto Gismonti, Unto Mononen, Thelonious Monk, Paul Desmond, Duke Ellington and Iiro Rantala.
Duration approximately one hour, no intermission.
Tickets 27/22 €
Group ticket from Kuusamo Hall 20 €, minimum group size 10 persons.