String Instruments orientation period 2025
Orientation period programme for new degree students in the Department of Strings and Chamber Music.
Please take note that in addition to the events of these two weeks, the “Uniarts Helsinki as a learning environment” study unit includes the completion of the online course on Moodle as well as the second orientation day for all new Uniarts students, held on 6 October 2025.
The orientation period and the Moodle online course are mandatory for new bachelor’s students and recommended for new master’s students. The Moodle online course section “Copyright and the Agreement on the right to use works related to studies” is mandatory for all new students.
Orientation events recommended for exchange students, too, have been marked with an asterisk (*).
Wednesday 13.8.2025
Individual study planning meetings, study coordinator Lea Kekkonen, S4119 (Music Centre) or Zoom/Teams. The timetable and instructions on booking your meeting time will be sent at the beginning of August by email.*
Thursday 14.8.2025
Individual study planning meetings, study coordinator Lea Kekkonen S4119 (Music Centre) or Zoom/Teams. The timetable and instructions on booking your meeting time will be sent at the beginning of August by email.*
Friday 15.8.2025
Individual study planning meetings, study coordinator Lea Kekkonen, S4119 (Music Centre) or Zoom/Teams. The timetable and instructions on booking your meeting time will be sent at the beginning of August by email.*
Monday 18.8.2025
9:30–16 First orientation day for all new Uniarts students, R-building concert hall*
- Presentation about the university’s values
- Orientation period as a whole and its learning outcomes
- Presentations about Uniarts Helsinki and its academies
- Uniarts Helsinki’s Code of Conduct
- The Student Union introduces itself
- Student tutors introduce themselves and talk about what tutoring is
- Programme organised by the tutors/Student Union
After 16:00, students can join an optional picnic organised by the Student Union.
Tuesday 19.8.2025
10–17 Joint day for Strings together with Wind instruments, Percussion and Harp, Music Centre (Black Box and Camerata)*
Bring your own instruments!
Programme of the day:
10.00–11.45 Black Box, Joint start, getting to know each other
11.45–13.00 Informal lunch
13.00–14.30 Camerata and Black Box, Departments’ own events
14.30–15.00 Break
15.00–17.00 Black Box, orchestral playing, Schubert’s Symphony No. 8, conducted by Petri Komulainen
Wednesday 20.8.2025
10–11 Structural Awareness of Music information session, in English: Agora (Music Centre)
Target group: bachelor’s students
11–12 Structural Awareness of Music teachers available to answer questions, in English: Agora (Music Centre)
Target group: bachelor’s students
10–12 Exchange students’ orientation session, Camerata (Music Centre)*
Target group: exchange students
11–13 Study services’ drop-in hours, SibA info desk (Music Centre)
Assistance in questions regarding attendance, paper certificates, HSL forms etc.
13–17 Orientation afternoon 1 for all new Sibelius-Academy students, Black Box (Music Centre)*
Getting to know the Sibelius Academy and the new students, community building, first rehearsal of the freshers’ choir, information about facilities, music
Individual study planning meetings, study coordinator Lea Kekkonen, S4119 (Music Centre) or Zoom/Teams. The timetable and instructions on booking your meeting time will be sent at the beginning of August by email.*
Thursday 21.8.2025
9–10:30 Written exam in aural skills, H1112 Auditorium (Music Centre)*
Target group: bachelor’s students applying for credit transfer of prior studies or prior learning in aural skills, exchange students who wish to participate in aural skills courses
11:30–13:30 Freshers’ choir: second rehearsal and performance, R-building chamber music hall & concert hall*
Rehearsal in the chamber music hall and a performance in the concert hall at the academy’s staff day
14–15:30 Written exam in applied analysis skills, H1112 Auditorium (Music Centre)*
Target group: bachelor’s students applying for credit transfer of prior studies or prior learning in applied analysis skills, exchange students who wish to participate in theory courses
16–18 Info session for new international students of the Sibelius Academy, Black Box (Music Centre)*
- Practical information
- Cultural orientation
Target group: new international students and exchange students
Friday 22.8.2025
9–12 Oral exams in aural skills, S7113 & S7114 (Music Centre)*
Target group: bachelor’s students applying for credit transfer of prior studies or prior learning in aural skills, exchange students who wish to participate in aural skills courses
11–13 Study services’ drop-in hours, SibA info desk (Music Centre)
Assistance in questions regarding attendance, paper certificates, HSL forms etc.
13–15:30 Orientation afternoon 2 for all new Sibelius Academy students, Black Box (Music Centre)*
Wellbeing lecture, getting to know the new students, community building, music
Individual study planning meetings, study coordinator Lea Kekkonen, S4119 (Music Centre) or Zoom/Teams. The timetable and instructions on booking your meeting time will be sent at the beginning of August by email.*
Monday 25.8.2025
10–10:45 Teachers pedagogical studies (60 cr) info session, Zoom (https://uniarts.zoom.us/j/65773728653)
The session is held in Finnish and English.
Target group: new master’s students interested in completing teacher’s pedagogical studies
Individual study planning meetings, study coordinator Lea Kekkonen, S4119 (Music Centre) or Zoom/Teams. The timetable and instructions on booking your meeting time will be sent at the beginning of August by email.*
Tuesday 26.8.2025
Individual study planning meetings, study coordinator Lea Kekkonen, S4119 (Music Centre) or Zoom/Teams. The timetable and instructions on booking your meeting time will be sent at the beginning of August by email.*
Wednesday 27.8.2025
15–16 Library tour, Töölö campus library (Agora, in front of the library’s entrance, Music Centre)*
Individual study planning meetings, study coordinator Lea Kekkonen, S4119 (Music Centre) or Zoom/Teams. The timetable and instructions on booking your meeting time will be sent at the beginning of August by email.*
Thursday 28.8.2025
Enrolment period for courses in 2025-2026 ends today in the Peppi system.*
13–16 Study coordinator Lea Kekkonen available for questions about studies and/or registrations, S4107 Music Centre 4th floor. You can arrive at any time during given time frame.*
Friday 29.8.2025
Monday 1.9.2025
18 Chamber music information meeting, Camerata (Music Centre)*
More information about the chamber music studies in the info-letter in August.
Questions: Planning officer Susanna Brandt, susanna.brandt@uniarts.fi
Tuesday 2.9.2025
17–18.30 Orchestra information meeting, Black Box (Music Centre)*
In addition, on the same day, between 3-8pm, your section will meet with the coordinating teacher to discuss recruitment for orchestra projects. The detailed schedule and room list will be sent later.
This is a mandatory meeting for all students planning to participate in orchestra projects during the academic year 2025-26.
For further information please contact planning officer Anna Rombach anna.rombach@uniarts.fi
Monday 22.9.2025
19 Meeting for the chamber music groups (/group representatives) and the teachers, N-Building* The meeting is mandatory for all groups!
More information about the chamber music studies in the info-letter in August.
Questions: Planning officer Susanna Brandt, susanna.brandt@uniarts.fi
Please take note that in addition to the events of these two weeks, the “Uniarts Helsinki as a learning environment” study unit includes the completion of the online course on Moodle as well as the second orientation day for all new Uniarts students, held on 6 October 2025.
The orientation period and the Moodle online course are mandatory for new bachelor’s students and recommended for new master’s students. The Moodle online course section “Copyright and the Agreement on the right to use works related to studies” is mandatory for all new students.
Orientation events recommended for exchange students, too, have been marked with an asterisk (*).
Wednesday 13.8.2025
Individual study planning meetings, study coordinator Lea Kekkonen, S4119 (Music Centre) or Zoom/Teams. The timetable and instructions on booking your meeting time will be sent at the beginning of August by email.*
Thursday 14.8.2025
Individual study planning meetings, study coordinator Lea Kekkonen S4119 (Music Centre) or Zoom/Teams. The timetable and instructions on booking your meeting time will be sent at the beginning of August by email.*
Friday 15.8.2025
Individual study planning meetings, study coordinator Lea Kekkonen, S4119 (Music Centre) or Zoom/Teams. The timetable and instructions on booking your meeting time will be sent at the beginning of August by email.*
Monday 18.8.2025
9:30–16 First orientation day for all new Uniarts students, R-building concert hall*
- Presentation about the university’s values
- Orientation period as a whole and its learning outcomes
- Presentations about Uniarts Helsinki and its academies
- Uniarts Helsinki’s Code of Conduct
- The Student Union introduces itself
- Student tutors introduce themselves and talk about what tutoring is
- Programme organised by the tutors/Student Union
After 16:00, students can join an optional picnic organised by the Student Union.
Tuesday 19.8.2025
10–17 Joint day for Strings together with Wind instruments, Percussion and Harp, Music Centre (Black Box and Camerata)*
Bring your own instruments!
Programme of the day:
10.00–11.45 Black Box, Joint start, getting to know each other
11.45–13.00 Informal lunch
13.00–14.30 Camerata and Black Box, Departments’ own events
14.30–15.00 Break
15.00–17.00 Black Box, orchestral playing, Schubert’s Symphony No. 8, conducted by Petri Komulainen
Wednesday 20.8.2025
10–11 Structural Awareness of Music information session, in English: Agora (Music Centre)
Target group: bachelor’s students
11–12 Structural Awareness of Music teachers available to answer questions, in English: Agora (Music Centre)
Target group: bachelor’s students
10–12 Exchange students’ orientation session, Camerata (Music Centre)*
Target group: exchange students
11–13 Study services’ drop-in hours, SibA info desk (Music Centre)
Assistance in questions regarding attendance, paper certificates, HSL forms etc.
13–17 Orientation afternoon 1 for all new Sibelius-Academy students, Black Box (Music Centre)*
Getting to know the Sibelius Academy and the new students, community building, first rehearsal of the freshers’ choir, information about facilities, music
Individual study planning meetings, study coordinator Lea Kekkonen, S4119 (Music Centre) or Zoom/Teams. The timetable and instructions on booking your meeting time will be sent at the beginning of August by email.*
Thursday 21.8.2025
9–10:30 Written exam in aural skills, H1112 Auditorium (Music Centre)*
Target group: bachelor’s students applying for credit transfer of prior studies or prior learning in aural skills, exchange students who wish to participate in aural skills courses
11:30–13:30 Freshers’ choir: second rehearsal and performance, R-building chamber music hall & concert hall*
Rehearsal in the chamber music hall and a performance in the concert hall at the academy’s staff day
14–15:30 Written exam in applied analysis skills, H1112 Auditorium (Music Centre)*
Target group: bachelor’s students applying for credit transfer of prior studies or prior learning in applied analysis skills, exchange students who wish to participate in theory courses
16–18 Info session for new international students of the Sibelius Academy, Black Box (Music Centre)*
- Practical information
- Cultural orientation
Target group: new international students and exchange students
Friday 22.8.2025
9–12 Oral exams in aural skills, S7113 & S7114 (Music Centre)*
Target group: bachelor’s students applying for credit transfer of prior studies or prior learning in aural skills, exchange students who wish to participate in aural skills courses
11–13 Study services’ drop-in hours, SibA info desk (Music Centre)
Assistance in questions regarding attendance, paper certificates, HSL forms etc.
13–15:30 Orientation afternoon 2 for all new Sibelius Academy students, Black Box (Music Centre)*
Wellbeing lecture, getting to know the new students, community building, music
Individual study planning meetings, study coordinator Lea Kekkonen, S4119 (Music Centre) or Zoom/Teams. The timetable and instructions on booking your meeting time will be sent at the beginning of August by email.*
Monday 25.8.2025
10–10:45 Teachers pedagogical studies (60 cr) info session, Zoom (https://uniarts.zoom.us/j/65773728653)
The session is held in Finnish and English.
Target group: new master’s students interested in completing teacher’s pedagogical studies
Individual study planning meetings, study coordinator Lea Kekkonen, S4119 (Music Centre) or Zoom/Teams. The timetable and instructions on booking your meeting time will be sent at the beginning of August by email.*
Tuesday 26.8.2025
Individual study planning meetings, study coordinator Lea Kekkonen, S4119 (Music Centre) or Zoom/Teams. The timetable and instructions on booking your meeting time will be sent at the beginning of August by email.*
Wednesday 27.8.2025
15–16 Library tour, Töölö campus library (Agora, in front of the library’s entrance, Music Centre)*
Individual study planning meetings, study coordinator Lea Kekkonen, S4119 (Music Centre) or Zoom/Teams. The timetable and instructions on booking your meeting time will be sent at the beginning of August by email.*
Thursday 28.8.2025
Enrolment period for courses in 2025-2026 ends today in the Peppi system.*
13–16 Study coordinator Lea Kekkonen available for questions about studies and/or registrations, S4107 Music Centre 4th floor. You can arrive at any time during given time frame.*
Friday 29.8.2025
Monday 1.9.2025
18 Chamber music information meeting, Camerata (Music Centre)*
More information about the chamber music studies in the info-letter in August.
Questions: Planning officer Susanna Brandt, susanna.brandt@uniarts.fi
Tuesday 2.9.2025
17–18.30 Orchestra information meeting, Black Box (Music Centre)*
In addition, on the same day, between 3-8pm, your section will meet with the coordinating teacher to discuss recruitment for orchestra projects. The detailed schedule and room list will be sent later.
This is a mandatory meeting for all students planning to participate in orchestra projects during the academic year 2025-26.
For further information please contact planning officer Anna Rombach anna.rombach@uniarts.fi
Monday 22.9.2025
19 Meeting for the chamber music groups (/group representatives) and the teachers, N-Building* The meeting is mandatory for all groups!
More information about the chamber music studies in the info-letter in August.
Questions: Planning officer Susanna Brandt, susanna.brandt@uniarts.fi