17th International Sasha Mäkilä Conducting Masterclass in Helsinki February 17-21, 2020Helsinki Metropolitan Orchestra Ten participants will get an intense masterclass experience over five days in Helsinki, Finland, working with maestro Sasha Mäkilä and the...

15th International Sasha Mäkilä Conducting Masterclass February 18-22, 2019 Helsinki Metropolitan Orchestra Ten participants will get an intense masterclass experience over five days in Helsinki, Finland, working with maestro Sasha Mäkilä and the string section of the...

Sasha Mäkilä and the Helsinki Metropolitan Orchestra are touring China on December 24, 2018 - January 3, 2019. The cities toured are Taicang, Yinchuan, Jinchang, Xi'an, Jiaxing, Cixi, Maanshan, Zhoushan Island and Shanghai. The orchestra will perform works by...

On December 19, 2018, Sasha Mäkilä successfully defended his PhD thesis "Conducting Madetoja - Discoveries about the Art and Profession of Conducting" at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, in Tallinn, Estonia. His artistic research project consisted of...