Sibbe Live!: Laughter, mockery, murder, and love!
18.02.2026 19:00 – 20:00
Standard price 20€ + order fee (from 1,50 € + 0,65 % of the order)
Students/pensioners/children 15€ + order fee (from 1,50 € + 0,65 % of the order)
Duo Hakkila & Rostamo throw themselves into a program inspired by Mozart’s operas, powered by the rarely heard fortepiano and baroque cello.
Ludwig van Beethoven: 7 Variations on the theme “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen” from Mozart’s The Magic Flute WoO46
Tema: Andante
Variationer I–VII
W. A. Mozart: Sonata for cello and piano in B major (arrangement of the bassoon sonata KV 292)
Allegro
Andante
Rondo: Allegro
Helene Liebmann: Grande sonat for piano and cello op. 11
Allegro
Adagio ma non troppo
Andante con variazioni on “La ci darem la mano” from Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for piano and cello in G minor op. 5 no. 2
Adagio sostenuto e espressivo
– Allegro molto piu tosto presto
Rondo: Allegro
Tuija Hakkila, fortepiano
Johannes Rostamo, baroque cello
Laughter, mockery, murder, and love!
Viennese Classical opera was a major source of inspiration for all composers at the beginning of the 19th century. The characters, the gestures, the love triangles, the laughter, the mockery, the murder, and the love—everything had to find its way into the music and be interpreted through sound. In this program, Duo Hakkila–Rostamo explore the foundations of classical rhetoric and take a step closer to the sound world of the 18th century with the help of their period instruments: the seldom-heard fortepiano and a gut-strung cello set up in a classical manner.
In addition to Beethoven’s two epic early sonatas, we will also enjoy two Sweden premieres: Helene Liebmann’s Grande Sonate, built on a theme from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and Mozart’s lovely bassoon sonata, here performed for the first time on cello and piano.
The cellist Johannes Rostamo, originally from Espoo, is one of the leading cellists in the Nordic countries. He is a versatile musician who performs as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral principal cellist, and baroque cellist.
Having studied in Sweden and Norway, Rostamo remained there and has since 2008 served as principal cellist of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, and since 2022 as professor of cello at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.
Alongside his regular positions, he creates new concert experiences with the Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble, which he founded, and explores historical performance practices with the baroque ensemble Orfeus Barock Stockholm, which he also founded and where he serves as artistic director.
Rostamo is a familiar figure at Nordic and European festivals, as well as a guest principal cellist with orchestras such as the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Australian and Scottish Chamber Orchestras, Les Siècles in Paris and FiBO in Helsinki. He also performs regularly with the European Chamber Orchestra.
As a soloist, Johannes has performed with several Nordic orchestras under conductors such as Sakari Oramo, Dima Slobodeniouk, Hannu Lintu, Andrew Manze, Luca Guglielmi, Daniel Blendulf and Mats Rondin.
Johannes has also made several CD recordings, most recently C. P. E. Bach’s A minor concerto with Orfeus Barock under the direction of Luca Guglielmi (ALBA), a recording that earned a Swedish Grammy nomination. Other notable recordings include critically acclaimed albums with the Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble (Channel Classics & BIS) and a live recording of Joonas Kokkonen’s Cello Concerto with conductor Paul Mägi and the KMH Symphony Orchestra in Tallinn (Academus 2006).
Johannes studied cello – and above all music – in Finland under Heikki Pekkarinen and Heikki Rautasalo, and later under Torleif Thedéen, Truls Mørk and Frans Helmerson in Stockholm and Oslo, as well as under Hatto Beyerle at the European Chamber Music Academy across Europe.
Johannes has also studied baroque music and the art of baroque cello with Bruno Cocset, Emmanuel Balssa and Gaetano Nasillo in Paris and Barcelona.
Johannes performs on a 1698 Antonio Stradivari cello, the “Magg,” kindly on loan from the Conni Jonsson family in Stockholm. His baroque cello was built by Lockey Hill in London in 1770.
Tuija Hakkila studied at the Sibelius Academy with Liisa Pohjola and Eero Heinonen, and continued her studies at the Paris Conservatoire with Jacques Rouvier and Theodor Paraskivesco. She studied 20th century music with Claude Helffer in Paris and classical performance practices with Malcolm Bilson in the United States. Other influential teachers have included György Sebök, William Pleeth and Dmitri Bashkirov. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University in New York in 1985/86.
Since 1987 she holds a senior position in piano music at the Sibelius Academy and earned a Doctor of Music degree in 2005. She also taught in the Royal Danish Conservatory in Copenhagen from 2005 through 2008. She regularly gives masterclasses in Finland and in Europe.
She has been the Artistic Director of the Early Music Festival in Hämeenlinna, the Summer Academy and Chamber Music Series in Nurmes, Kaiho Festival at Sello Hall in Espoo and the Sibelius Academy Concert Series.
Hakkila has performed as soloist, in chamber groups and as accompanist throughout Europe, in the United States, Japan, Indonesia, Africa and South America, and has made broadcasts in several countries. She has collaborated with eminents musicians like Vera Beths, Anner Bijlsma, Mikael Helasvuo, Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch, Anssi Karttunen, Alexei Lubimov, Karita Mattila and performed with conductors like Okko Kamu, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Leif Segerstam and Sakari Oramo. Her repertoire ranges from Bach to contemporary music; She has developed her interest in period instrument performance, presenting classical and romantic programmes on period pianos. She works with a number of today’s composers and is invited to give world premiere performances.
Tuija Hakkila’s solo discography includes the complete cycle of Mozart keyboard sonatas for which she has won acclaim in the world press, a recital of 20th century piano music and a world premiere recording of the early 19th century Finnish Lithander brothers’ music. Her recent CD “Intimate Landscapes” with Sibelius’ piano works received excellent reviews both in Finland and abroad. In fall 2012 Ondine will release a CD with Hakkila performing in Kaija Saariaho’s chamber music. In addition to this she has recorded Niccoló Castiglioni’s chamber music, Haydn flute trios and Byström sonatas for piano and violin. In the repertoire for cello and piano her discography includes recitals of 20th century music, Gabriel Fauré’s music and all Beethoven’s works.
Tickets can be purchased at the museum’s ticket desk from January 21, 2026 onward.