Patrik Latvala
is a freelance musician and a teacher at the Music Institute of the Porvoo region.
Instruments: trombone, tuba, bass.
Patrik is working with several musical styles and ensembles ranging from classical to jazz and rock, from dance bands and big bands to symphony orchestras.
Tiina Sinkkonen, contralto
Her concert repertoire includes such works as Pergolesi, Haydn and Vivaldi Stabat maters, Bach´s St. John Passion, Beethoven´s Ninth Symphony and the alto parts in Verdi, Mozart and Bruckner Requiems, Händel´s Messiah and Mozart´s Vesperae sollenes de confessore.
She has featured in productions by the Savonlinna Opera festival, the Finnish National Opera, the Kotka, Turku, Oulu and Tampere Operas, the Finnish Chamber Opera, the Ilmajoki Opera festival and the Naantali Music festival. She has also visited in the Caesarea Opera festival in Israel and in the Dalhalla Operafestival in Sveden.
Her repertoire includes Florence Bike in Britten´s Albert Herring, Amalia in in The Rib of Man and Tyyne in Daughters of the Fatherland by Ilkka Kuusisto, the title role in Menotti´s The Medium, and Miss Todd in The Old maid and the Thief. The 3rd Lady in The Magic Flute (Mozart) she have sung in several productions i Finland. In Aarre Merikanto´s opera Juha Tiina Sinkkonen sang Mother-in -law in the Savonlinna Opera festival and Grandmother in the Finnish National opera. Flosshilde and 1 st. Norn in Wagner´s Götterdämmerung, Kaisa in Leevi Madetoja´s Ostrobothnians, Praskovia in Lehar´s The Merry Widow, Mamma Lucia in Mascagni´s Cavalleria Rusticana, the Mother and the Chinese Cup in Ravel´s L´enfant et les sortileges, Curra in Verdi´s La forza del destino, Moominmother in The Moominsopera by Ilkka Kuusisto and Louhi in Jaakko Kuusisto´s The Canine Kalevala. She also featured in the Age of Dreams, in an operatic trilogy´s world premiere in Savonlinna Opera festival in 2000, as Soldier´s wife (Kalevi Aho) and in Alt-solo (Herman Rechberger).
Afro-American Spiritual- konserts with jazz-band have also included in her repertoire during last years.
Tiina Sinkkonen was chosen into Finnish National opera choir as 2. alto in 1997.
Songs from the heart CD published in 2006 and I´m on my way CD in 2013.
Eric-Olof Söderström
received his diploma in choral conducting in 1985.
He founded the Finnish Chamber choir for his diploma concert, and it won the Adult chorus category at the EBU Let the Peoples Sing choir competition the same year. Next year he went on studyings orchestral conducting with Jorma Panula, graduating in 1988. He also attended master classes and studied in Vienna.
Söderström has held the position of choirmaster at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and the Finnish National Opera.
He has been the Artistic Director of the Radio Chamber Choir and the Mikkeli City Orchestra, and has served as guest director of the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir (Stockholm).
He is now the cantor and music director of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran parish of Porvoo Cathedral.
Thomas Törnroos
All-around-, Session- & Jazz-drummer & percussion artist.
Over 35 records. Jazz Emma Prize 2006 (Loco Motife - Penguine Beguine).
Porvoon Kulttuuripalkinto 2012 (Porvoo Cultural Prize). Produced over 200 Jazz Club Nights (Steamin´ Jazz Club). Drum teacher and clinician. Visual artist & painter.