Program at the Concert Hall
Entry (at 12.00 noon)
The doctoral conferees and members of the Åbo Akademi University staff as well as guests from universities in the Nordic countries enter the hall in procession.
Högtidsmarsch till Åbo Akademi (1938)
Music: Alfred Anderssén
Arrangement: Sauli Huhtala
Akademiska Orkestern vid Åbo Akademi
Conductor: Sauli Huhtala
Music (at 12.10 PM)
Romans
Music: Jean Sibelius
Soloist: John Eric Saxén, cello
Var det en dröm
Music: Jean Sibelius
Words: Josef Julius Wecksell
Soloist: Reetta-Liina Säilä
Akademiska Orkestern vid Åbo Akademi
Conductor: Sauli Huhtala
Address of Welcome (at 12.20 PM)
Professor Mikko Hupa, Rector at Åbo Akademi University
Music (at 12.25 PM)
Löv av sanning
Music: Gottfrid Gräsbeck
Words: Ole Torvalds
Composed to the fifty year anniversary of Åbo Akademis Studentkår 1969.
Florakören vid Åbo Akademi, Studentkören Brahe Djäknar and Akademiska Orkestern vid Åbo Akademi
Conductor: Sauli Huhtala
Choir rehersal: Ulf Långbacka
Conferrer's speach (at 12.40 PM)
Professor Reko Leino
Conferral (at 12.45 PM)
Vårt land - National anthem (at 14.05 PM)
Music: Fredrik Pacius
Words: Johan Ludvid Runeberg
Exit (at 14.15 PM)
The doctoral conferees and members of the Åbo Akademi University staff as well as guests from universities in the Nordic countries leave the hall in procession.
March for the Royal Society of Musicians
Music: Joseph Haydn
Akademiska Orkestern vid Åbo Akademi
Conductor: Sauli Huhtala
Procession (at 14.30 PM)
The doctoral conferees and members of the Åbo Akademi University staff as well as guests from universities in the Nordic countries walks in procession from the Concert Hall to Turku Catchedral.