Konsertti on osa valtakunnallista vanhustenviikkoa. Konsertti on ilmainen kaikille vierailijoille iästä riippumatta. Salissa on 150 istumapaikkaa. Ennakkovarausta ei tarvita.

Järjestäjä: Närpiön kaupunki

Organic Growth in Corea

Organic Growth esittää musiikkia suurelta jazzpianistilta Chick Corealta, joka tunnetaan yhtenä tuotteliaimmista säveltäjistä ja taiteilijoista 1900-luvulla.

Organic Growth

Arto Ikävalko, organ

Mathias Sandberg, kitara

Ville Luukkonen, rummut

Arto Ikävalko
Pianist/keyboardist, composer and educator Arto Ikävalko has studied at Sibelius Academy, worked with the likes of Jukka Perko, Jukka Eskola and Kalevi Louhivuori, and just recorded his upcoming solo debut album.

Mathias Sandberg
He has been called "one of Finland's best kept secrets", the highly acclaimed guitarist and composer Mathias Sandberg is one of the hardest working jazz musicians in the country.
He has studied at Manhattan School of Music in New York and Berklee College of Music in Boston and worked with artists such as Georg Riedel, Pierre Swärd, Peter Asplund, Nick Mancini, Jukka Eskola, Teppo Mäkynen and Manuel Dunkel. Sandberg plays a hundred or so concerts a year and has toured both Europe and the United States.
Sandberg's solo albums The Doctor (2020) and The Captain (2023) has received both huge critical review and airplay on jazz radio stations in Europe, United States, South America, Asia and Australia.

Ville Luukkonen
Drummer, educator, Sibelius Academy alumni and the founder of this group, Ville Luukkonen was born in Lappeenranta. After moving to Helsinki he soon established himself as one of the most in demand drummers in the city, where he's also been instrumental in organizing several clubs.