Epoch Café – An Afternoon with Adelaïde Ehrnrooth

The epoch café produced by Helsinki Walks Collective brings us the 19th Century and the heydays of the House of Nobility. 

The building served as the meeting place of the nobility in the Grand Duchy of Finland from 1863 to 1906. Through Adelaïde Ehrnrooth (1826–1905) – an exceptional noblewoman, a writer and female advocate – we can look at both the political work done in the House of Nobility and the role of noblewomen in the Finnish society.

Adelaïde Ehrnrooth visits in a monologue play. The performance will tell about the nobility’s family life and the importance of the family community, wild celebrations and trips abroad, and about the House of Nobility as a political scene. What kind of discussions took place in the hall, how have they affected the Finnish politics, the way of life and the construction of society?

Trio Est is a group formed by three talented young musicians. Abel Puustinen, Anna Westerlund and Fanny Söderström have each of them been successful in national Finnish competitions and as a trio they won the third prize in the Ilmari Hannikainen Piano Chamber Music Competition. They perform the astonishingly original piano trio by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel and the wast first piano trio by Anton Arensky, a composer active in St Petersburg.

Edith Holmström, actor

Trio Est:
Abel Puustinen, violin
Anna Westerlund, cello
Fanny Söderström, piano

Program:

Eeva Kotioja & Karolina Sveiby: Monologue play on Adelaïde Ehrnrooth
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Trio in D Minor, Op. 11
Anton Arensky: Trio No 1 in D Minor, Op. 32

House of Nobility

4.2.2023 at 15.00

Tickets 15-35€ from Lippupiste, duration 2 h