August 21, 2026
SHOAC | Järvi, Kantorow and the Estonian Festival Orchestra play one night on 22 October, on sale from 14:00 today
Paavo Järvi brings the orchestra he founded, with the pianist Alexandre Kantorow, for one night at the SHOAC Concert Hall on 22 October at 19:30. Tüür, Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto and Sibelius's Fifth. Five bands from 180 to 880 yuan, on sale from 14:00 on 21 August, six tickets per person.
By 小魔女·Edited by 马勒迷
Paavo Järvi, Alexandre Kantorow and the Estonian Festival Orchestra play the SHOAC Concert Hall on 22 October at 19:30, for one night. Tickets opened at 14:00 on 21 August.
Five bands: 180, 280, 480 and 680 yuan, with the top band of 880 marked VIP. Six tickets per person per performance, real-name registration, no refunds or exchanges. SHOAC's own channels — its website and its WeChat mini-program — carry the house member discounts. The presenter put the initial allocation at 1,900 tickets.
An orchestra built around one musician
The Estonian Festival Orchestra is not a house band that works together all year. Järvi assembled it in 2011 around the festival he had started in his home town of Pärnu, inviting every player himself — half of them Estonian, half from leading European orchestras — reconvening each summer in Pärnu to rehearse, perform, and disperse.
That is not usually how an international reputation is built, and this one was. In 2018 it became the first Estonian ensemble to play the BBC Proms; in 2025 it made its North American debut at Carnegie Hall, headlining the hall's ninetieth-birthday tribute to Arvo Pärt. Six albums on Alpha Classics so far.
The programme
It opens with Erkki-Sven Tüür, an Estonian of Järvi's own generation who was writing rock music in his early twenties and has since written ten symphonies. Action – Passion – Illusion dates from 1993 and is scored for string orchestra. The published programme prints it as "Passion Illusion", the second and third of its three movements, and the concert page says so.
Then Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, with Alexandre Kantorow. At twenty-two in 2019 he became the first French pianist to win the piano first prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition, taking with it the Grand Prix the jury has awarded three times in its history; the Gilmore Artist Award followed in 2024, making him its youngest recipient.
After the break, Sibelius's Fifth, whose finale carries the swinging horn figure he took from sixteen swans seen in April 1915 and recorded in his diary as one of the great experiences of his life.
The presenter is KAJIMOTO (Beijing); the performance licence is 沪文旅许[2026]4190号, issued on 31 July. A minimum running time of 90 minutes has been published; the full length, and whether there is an interval, have not.