Evelīna Sumelius-Lindblom (Finland) Solo Concert

Finnish pianist Evelīna Sumelius-Lindblom will visit Daugavpils with a piano concert

On November 27 this year at 6: 00 PM, in the Concert Hall of the Vienības House (22a Rīgas Street), the resident artist of the 19th concert season of the orchestra Daugavpils Sinfonietta, Finnish pianist Evelīna Sumelius-Lindblom, will perform a solo concert, “Moods of Early 20th-Century Piano Music.”

In her solo piano concert, Finnish pianist and Doctor of Music Evelīna Sumelius-Lindblom focuses on the stylistic diversity of classical music in the period from 1910 to 1925, revealing the variety of early 20th-century music, from national romanticism to early modernism.

The program will feature works by Jāzeps Vītols, Arthur Honegger, Anton Webern, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Sibelius, and Darius Milhaud.

Doctor of Music Evelīna Sumelius-Lindblom is actively engaged in the field of classical music as a pianist and teacher, as well as in academia as a lecturer, reviewer, co-editor, and jury member. In her career as a pianist, she has extensive international experience in competitions, recordings, solo concerts, and premieres of technically and artistically demanding new works. Sumelius-Lindblom has also presented papers at international conferences on musicology, artistic research, and piano pedagogy.

At the Sibelius Academy, which is part of the University of the Arts Helsinki, Sumelius-Lindblom serves on the doctoral defense committee of the Doctoral Program and Research Centre as a member of the artistic jury, and also works as a part-time teacher. She is also a guest lecturer at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music and a piano teacher at the Porvoo Regional Music Institute.

In October 2025, Sumelius-Lindblom was announced as the resident artist of Daugavpils Sinfonietta for the 2026-2027 concert season. The residency program will pay special attention to piano concertos of the Viennese Classical period. In May 2027, she will perform Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 as a soloist.

The concert is organized by the municipal institution Vienības House of Daugavpils City Municipality, with support from Daugavpils City Municipality.