Concerts
The rehearsals are starting on Monday 12.1. at 6-9pm in Smökki (Jämeräntaival 4). Be there, if you want to join this season!
Chamber Music Concert Fri 27.2.2026 7pm
Auroran kappeli, Espoo
The members of the Polytech Orchestra perform their selected chamber music pieces. Free entrance.
Spring Concert Sat 14.3.2026 6.30pm
Temppeliaukio Church, Helsinki
Program
Frank Bridge: The Sea
Eduard Tubin: Double Bass Concerto, soloist Iikka Järvi
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 7
Waputin Concert Ball Fri 1.5.2026 5pm
Home Hotel Jugend, Lönnrotinkatu 29 Helsinki
The Polytech Orchestra, founded in 1922, is a student symphony orchestra from Espoo, Finland. The orchestra works in co-operation with Aalto University Student Union (AYY). Most of the approximately one hundred members are students and alumni from Aalto University, but there are also students from other universities and schools from the greater Helsinki area. The orchestra is conducted by Vuokko Lahtinen.
The main events of the year are the autumn and spring concerts in Helsinki area along with the spring tour that is typically headed to different parts of Finland. The orchestra has also given concerts abroad, for instance in Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden, Estonia, and Scotland. On every 1st of May, the yearly student festival in Finland, the Polytech Orchestra arranges the Waputin concert with both music and dancing. Waputin concert is arranged in a humorous way around a yearly-changing theme so that the audience can enjoy both music performances and the joy of waltz and other dances.
The Polytech Orchestra takes new members twice a year: in the beginning of September and January.