Category Archives: Encyclopedic

Published in print: 20 January 2001, Published online: 2001; updated, 31 January 2014 (b Espoo, March 4, 1965). Finnish composer. From 1984 he studied composition at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with Rautavaara, Aho and Eliasson and continued his studies with Donatoni in Biella and Siena (1988–9) and … Continue reading →

Published in print: 20 January 2001, Published online: 2001; updated and revised, 31 January 2014 (b Lahti, Jan 10, 1957). Finnish composer. He studied composition at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki (1978–89) with Rautavaara, Heininen and Hämeenniemi, and subsequently spent a year of further study in Paris. … Continue reading →

Published in print: 20 January 2001, Published online: 2001; updated and revised, 31 January 2014 (b Salo, March 22, 1954). Finnish composer. He studied musicology at the University of Turku (MA 1982) and from 1982 to 1987 he studied composition with Heininen at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He … Continue reading →

Published in print: 20 January 2001, Published online: 2001; updated and revised, 31 January 2014 (b Helsinki, July 21, 1955). Finnish pianist, composer and conductor. He studied the piano and music theory at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki from 1972 to 1980. From 1974 he worked as a rehearsal pianist and from 1979 … Continue reading →

Published in print: 20 January 2001, Published online: 2001; updated, 31 January 2014 (b Helsinki, Oct 22, 1953). Finnish composer and choral conductor . He studied composition with Kokkonen and Heininen at the Sibelius Academy, where he took his diploma in music theory in 1988 and where he began teaching in 1979, … Continue reading →

Published in print: 20 January 2001, Published online: 2001; updated, 31 January 2014 (b Tampere, Jan 27, 1930; d Tampere, Nov 12, 2004). Finnish composer. He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki (1951–6), taking diplomas in conducting with Funtek and composition with Merikanto; he also studied with Krenek … Continue reading →

Published in print: 20 January 2001, Published online: 2001; updated, 31 January 2014 (b Janakkala, Oct 16, 1941). Finnish composer. He studied with Kokkonen and Bergman at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and with Ton de Leeuw in Bilthoven in 1971. A teacher of music theory and … Continue reading →

Published in print: 20 January 2001, Published online: 2001; updated, 22 October 2008 (b Forssa, March 9, 1949). Finnish composer. He studied composition with Einojuhani Rautavaara at the Sibelius Academy (diploma, 1971) and in Berlin with Boris Blacher(1971–2). From 1974 to 1988 he taught music theory at the Helsinki University … Continue reading →

Published in print: 20 January 2001, Published online: 2001; updated, 28 February 2002; updated works list, 27 November 2002 (b Helsinki, June 30, 1958). Finnish conductor and composer. He entered the Sibelius Academy as a horn student of Fransman in 1973, graduating in 1977. That year he founded the avant-garde … Continue reading →