Open Mic | World Music School Helsinki

Our 2025 podcast season is back

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 podcast series OpenMic, recorded live from the Helsinki Open Waves!

Listen to the voices, stories, and performances of talented musicians and enthusiasts from diverse backgrounds, all coming together to celebrate the universal language of music.

The Dates:

26.02 at 16:00
26.03 at 17:00
30.04 at 16:00
28.05 at 16:00
25.06 at 16:00

27.08 at 16:00
24.09 at 16:00
29.10 at 16:00
26.11 at 16:00

What to Expect:

Live performances by local and international artists.

Engaging interviews and stories that explore the journeys of musicians.

Live at: https://www.helsinkiopenwaves.com/

Open Mic with Ida Marie Jessen

Open Mic

Tomorrow the 3rd of April 2024, we will be live in another OpenMic show. The guest will be Ida Marie Jessen.
Tune in at 13:00 at the Helsinki Open Waves-HOW website, recorded live from Kulttuurikeskus Caisa, moderated by Pedro Aibeo

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Open Mic show with Sami Karkar

Open Mic

We have live today at 16:00 (EET), at our Open Mic show at the Helsinki Open Waves-HOW in Kulttuurikeskus Caisa, the French-Tunisien musician, Sami Karkar

Sami has been studying since 2022 at the Global Music department of Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki.

Also a trained scientist from his first life, Sami has previously graduated with a PhD in music acoustics from Aix-Marseille University (France), and worked several years as an academic researcher.

OpenMic with Colombian Cellist Sergio Castrillon

Open Mic

Next wednesday the 23 November 2022, at 16:00, we will interview live from Helsinki, the great Sergio Castrillón at the Helsinki Open Waves-HOW.
Interview will be conducted by Pedro Aibeo, in spanish.
Tune in at https://www.helsinkiopenwaves.com/

Sergio will be playing two pieces from his latest solo album GLOBAL SOUNDSCAPES.

Sergio Castrillon is a Multidisciplinary Sonic-based artist/researcher focused on
experimentalism. Over the last years he has been working on the creation of multi-sonic
performances and developing the notion of Multi-process creativity, taking as bases
improvisation, composition, comprovisation and soundscape. Within his last works Castrillón has
been using only domestic/recycled technology as a way to foster more sustainable and
ecological strategies in art and research making.

OpenMic with Mayim Alpert

Open Mic

This wednesday the 29th June 2022, at 16:00, we will interview live from Helsinki, the great Mayim Alpert at the Helsinki Open Waves-HOW.
Interview will be conducted by Pedro Aibeo, in english.
Tune in at https://www.helsinkiopenwaves.com/

Mayim Alpert is a luthier, composer and multi-instrumentalist who has created music for theatre and film as well as performing in bands across many genres from soul to klezmer. He
is a professional violin and bow maker serving string instruments players in Helsinki and around Finland, with his colleague Lauri Kallinen, at Alpert & Kallinen Fine Violins, in Töölö.
He is also interested in experimental instruments and musical sculpture, and has built unique instruments such as the räätäliira, or tailor’s lyre, from an old sewing machine, and the
runopiano, or poet’s piano, incorporating an old typewriter. He is an active musician in Krepsko Theatre Group, Helsinki Klezmer Kapelye, and Helsinki Balalaikka Orchestra,
among others. Born in the USA, he has however spent the last 20 years in Europe, primarily in Prague and Helsinki, and has 4 boys.