The Youth Piano Academy Finland has been successfully training talented young pianists since 2013, while the Junior Academy of Uniarts Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy celebrated its 140th anniversary last year. Over the years, the Young Artists of the Festival concert has featured outstanding talents from these schools who have gone on to achieve international success. Come and see the stars of the future ignite!

The Youth Piano Academy Finland is part of the Instrument Academies Association, together with the String Academy and the Brass Academy. The Instrument Academies are supported by the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Artistic director of the Mänttä Music Festival, Niklas Pokki, will give an introduction to the concert (in Finnish) in the Kivijärvi hall at 14.30. The concert ends approximately at 16.10.