100 Notable alumni of
University of the Arts Helsinki
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The University of the Arts Helsinki is 468th in the world, 163rd in Europe, and 2nd in Finland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of the Arts Helsinki sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Tarja Turunen
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- composersongwriterpianistopera singer
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Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen-Cabuli, known professionally as Tarja Turunen or simply Tarja, is a Finnish heavy metal singer, best known as the former lead vocalist of Nightwish.
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Jean Sibelius
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts Helsinki
- Studied in 1885-1889
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer, and his music is often credited with having helped Finland develop a stronger national identity when the country was struggling from several attempts at Russification in the late 19th century.
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Tove Jansson
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts Helsinki
- Studied in 1933-1937
- Occupations
- paintercaricaturistwritercartoonistchildren's writer
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Tove Marika Jansson was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Paris. She held her first solo art exhibition in 1943. Over the same period, she penned short stories and articles for publication, and subsequently drew illustrations for book covers, advertisements, and postcards. She continued her work as an artist and writer for the rest of her life.
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Saara Aalto
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- singer-songwritersingervoice actor
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Saara Sofia Aalto is a Finnish singer, songwriter and voice actress. In 2012, she came second in the first season of The Voice of Finland.
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Akseli Gallen-Kallela
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts Helsinki
- Studied in 1878-1884
- Occupations
- printmakerpainterdesignerillustratorarchitect
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Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. His work is considered a very important aspect of the Finnish national identity. He finnicized his name from Gallén to Gallen-Kallela in 1907.
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Paula Vesala
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts Helsinki
- Studied in 2002
- Occupations
- writerlyricistfilm directorsongwriteractor
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Paula Julia Vesala is a Finnish singer-songwriter, actress, and playwright. She was one of two singers and main lyricist in the pop rock duo PMMP along with Mira Luoti. Her solo career began in 2015 under the stage name "Vesala". She has composed songs for other well-known Finnish artists such as Vesa-Matti Loiri, Jenni Vartiainen, and Antti Tuisku.
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Helene Schjerfbeck
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- painter
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Helena Sofia Schjerfbeck ( pronounced [heˈleːn ˈʃæ̌rvbek]; July 10, 1862 – January 23, 1946) was a Finnish modernist painter known for her realist works and self-portraits, and also for her landscapes and still lifes. Throughout her long life her work changed dramatically, beginning with French-influenced realism and plein air painting. It gradually evolved towards portraits and still life paintings. At the beginning of her career she often produced historical paintings, such as the Wounded Warrior in the Snow (1880), At the Door of Linköping Jail in 1600 (1882) and The Death of Wilhelm von Schwerin (1886). Historical paintings were usually the realm of male painters, as was experimentation with modern influences and French radical naturalism, and her works from mostly the 1880s did not receive a favourable reception until later in her life.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen
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- composerconductor
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Esa-Pekka Salonen KBE is a Finnish conductor and composer. He is the music director of the San Francisco Symphony and conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra in London and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 2024, he announced his resignation from the San Francisco Symphony upon the expiration of his contract in 2025.
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Arja Saijonmaa
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- actorsinger
- Biography
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Arja Enni Helena Saijonmaa is a Finnish singer, political activist and occasional actress.
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Albert Edelfelt
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- graphic artistpainterillustrator
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Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt was a Finnish painter noted for his naturalistic style and Realist approach to art. He lived in the Grand Duchy of Finland and made Finnish culture visible abroad, before Finland gained full independence. He was considered the greatest Finnish artist of the second half of 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries, and one of the most prominent contributors to the Golden Age of Finnish Art.
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Kaija Saariaho
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- composer
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Kaija Anneli Saariaho was a Finnish composer based in Paris, France. During the course of her career, Saariaho received commissions from the Lincoln Center for the Kronos Quartet and from IRCAM for the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the BBC, the New York Philharmonic, the Salzburg Music Festival, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and the Finnish National Opera, among others. In a 2019 composers' poll by BBC Music Magazine, Saariaho was ranked the greatest living composer.
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Klaus Mäkelä
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- conductorcellist
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Klaus Mäkelä is a Finnish conductor and cellist. He is the chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic, and music director of the Orchestre de Paris. Mäkelä is also artistic partner and chief conductor-designate of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and music director-designate of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
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Einojuhani Rautavaara
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- composeruniversity teachermusicologist
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Einojuhani Rautavaara was a Finnish composer of classical music. Among the most notable Finnish composers since Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), Rautavaara wrote a great number of works spanning various styles. These include eight symphonies, nine operas and fifteen concertos, as well as numerous vocal and chamber works. Having written early works using 12-tone serial techniques, his later music may be described as neo-romantic and mystical. His major works include his first piano concerto (1969), Cantus Arcticus (1972) and his seventh symphony, Angel of Light (1994).
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Eicca Toppinen
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- composercellistrecord producermusiciandrummer
- Biography
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Eino Matti "Eicca" Toppinen is a Finnish cellist, songwriter, producer, and arranger. In 1993 he formed the quartet Apocalyptica.
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Linda Brava
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- modelviolinistactor
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Linda Magdalena Cullberg Lampenius, better known by her maiden name Linda Lampenius and international stage name Linda Brava, is a Finnish classical concert violinist. Named as one of the most versatile and accomplished players of her generation, Brava has also performed pop, rock, folk, techno, film, jazz, and world music, among others.
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Erja Lyytinen
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- guitaristsingersongwriter
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Erja Lyytinen is a Finnish vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter.
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Leif Segerstam
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- violistmusicianviolinistconductorcomposer
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Leif Selim Segerstam was a Finnish conductor, composer, violinist, violist, and pianist, especially known for writing over 300 symphonies, along with other works.
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Perttu Kivilaakso
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- composercellist
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Perttu Päivö Kullervo Kivilaakso is a cello player for Finnish band Apocalyptica. Like fellow band members Eicca Toppinen and Paavo Lötjönen, he attended Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He plays a German 19th century cello; he started playing the cello when he was 5 years old and joined Apocalyptica for their third studio album Cult. Kivilaakso played in Apocalyptica's 1995 line up, but he was concentrating on his studies when the band began their professional career. At the end of 1999 he came back, switching places with Antero Manninen, who then went to play in a classical orchestra.
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Eero Järnefelt
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- painter
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Erik "Eero" Nikolai Järnefelt was a Finnish painter and art professor. He is best known for his portraits and landscapes of the area around Koli National Park, in the North Karelia region of Finland. He was a medal winner at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889 and 1900, taught art at the University of Helsinki and was chairman of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts.
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Kirsi Kunnas
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- writertranslatorchildren's writerpoet
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Kirsi Marjatta Kunnas was a Finnish poet, children's literature author and translator into Finnish. Her oeuvre consists of poems, fairy tale books, drama, translations (e.g. Lewis Carroll, Federico García Lorca) and non-fiction. Her books have been translated into Swedish, English, German, French, Hungarian, Estonian and Polish. She received several awards in Finland for her life's work.
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Karita Mattila
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- opera singer
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Karita Marjatta Mattila is a Finnish operatic soprano.
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Tamara Lund
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- opera singerfilm actor
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Tamara Adele Lund-Ioniță was a Finnish soprano singer and actress. She was born in Turku and was a graduate of the Sibelius Academy. She performed in the Finnish National Opera from 1967 and at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich from 1974 to 1987. Lund was the mother of the Finnish singer Maria Lund. Her second spouse was the Romanian opera singer Alexandru Ioniță. Lund died of stomach cancer in Turku in July 2005.
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Mona-Liisa Nousiainen
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts Helsinki
- In 2004 studied accordion
- Occupations
- cross-country skieraccordionist
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Mona-Liisa Nousiainen was a Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the World Cup between 2002 and 2018. Her best World Cup finish was first place in a sprint event in Liberec, in the Czech Republic, on 12 January 2013.
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Paavo Lötjönen
- Occupations
- musiciancellist
- Biography
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Paavo Lötjönen is a cello player for Finnish band Apocalyptica. Paavo comes from a family where both of his parents were professional musicians. At the age of 6, he took a cello and decided that would be the instrument he would play all his life. Like fellow band members Perttu Kivilaakso and Eicca Toppinen, he attended Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
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Toivo Kuula
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- composerconductor
- Biography
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Toivo Timoteus Kuula was a Finnish composer and conductor of the late-Romantic and early-modern periods, who emerged in the wake of Jean Sibelius, under whom he studied privately from 1906 to 1908. The core of Kuula's oeuvre are his many works for voice and orchestra, in particular the Stabat mater (1914–18; completed by Madetoja), The Sea-Bathing Maidens (1910), Son of a Slave (1910), and The Maiden and the Boyar's Son (1912). In addition he also composed two Ostrobothnian Suites for orchestra and left an unfinished symphony at the time of his murder in 1918 in a drunken quarrel.
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Kaj Chydenius
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts Helsinki
- Studied in 1957
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- composerpoliticiansinger
- Biography
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Kaj Oskar Chydenius was a Finnish musician and composer, probably best known for his left-wing political songs interpreted by various artists.
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Pekka Kuusisto
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- composerjazz musicianviolinist
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Pekka Kuusisto is a Finnish musician.
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Jukka-Pekka Saraste
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- violinistconductor
- Biography
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Jukka-Pekka Saraste is a Finnish conductor and violinist.
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Mikko Franck
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- violinistconductor
- Biography
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Mikko Franck is a Finnish conductor and violinist.
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Susanna Mälkki
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts Helsinki
- In 1995 studied cello
- 1995-1998 studied conducting
- Occupations
- conductorcellist
- Biography
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Susanna Ulla Marjukka Mälkki is a Finnish conductor and cellist.
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Antero Manninen
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- musiciancellist
- Biography
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Antero Manninen, also known by band members as Mr. Cool, is a session musician and former band member of Finnish Cello metal quartet Apocalyptica. He was an official member but did not write the music and left in 1999 due to prior commitments, although he has come back to help the band several years ago. His seated, calm composure playing style is at stark contrast with the headbanging antics of the others when playing live. Besides his job in Apocalyptica he used to work as a musician in a Tapiola Sinfonietta Avanti! and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and in the orchestra of the Finnish National Opera. He is also one of the founders of Sibelius-Academy's Cellosextet (SSS). Manninen has also been performing at funerals. Currently he is a member of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra.
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Magnus Lindberg
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- composermusicianpianist
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Magnus Gustaf Adolf Lindberg is a Finnish composer and pianist. He was the New York Philharmonic's composer-in-residence from 2009 to 2012 and the London Philharmonic Orchestra's composer-in-residence from 2014 to 2017.
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Matti Salminen
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- opera singerperforming artist
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Matti Kalervo Salminen is a Finnish operatic bass, now retired, who has sung at the most important opera houses of the world, including the Metropolitan and Bayreuth Festival. He is distinguished by an imposing figure and height (6' 5"), a cavernous, heavy, dark voice with an expansive upper register, and an expressive face. According to one reviewer, in his prime Salminen was "... simply the largest bass voice in captivity. It is not just its roar in powering over Wagner's maximum orchestra, but the way he carves the sonority and forms the color."
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Jorma Panula
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- university teachercomposerconductormusic educator
- Biography
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Jorma Juhani Panula is a Finnish conductor, composer, and teacher of conducting. He has mentored many Finnish conductors, such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mikko Franck, Sakari Oramo, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Osmo Vänskä, Klaus Mäkelä and Tarmo Peltokoski.
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Osmo Vänskä
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- composerconductorclarinetist
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Osmo Antero Vänskä is a Finnish conductor, clarinetist, and composer.
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Kalevi Aho
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts Helsinki
- Studied in 1969-1971
- Occupations
- composeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Kalevi Ensio Aho is a Finnish composer.
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Elin Danielson-Gambogi
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- painter
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Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi was a Finnish painter, best known for her realist works and portraits. Danielson-Gambogi was part of the first generation of Finnish women artists who received professional education in art, the so-called "painter sisters' generation". The group also included Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946), Helena Westermarck (1857-1938), and Maria Wiik (1853-1928).
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Max Lilja
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- composerrecord producercellist
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Max Lilja is a Finnish cello player. He is best known as a founding member of the Finnish cello metal band Apocalyptica, a band he left in 2001 to join the Finnish thrash metal band Hevein. Beginning in 2007, Lilja has been a recording and touring member of Tarja Turunen's solo band. Throughout his career, Lilja has continued to play classical music alongside rock, metal, and crossover projects.
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Timo K. Mukka
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- screenwriterwriterpainterpoet
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Timo Kustaa Mukka was a Finnish author who wrote about the lives of people in Lapland.
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Matias Kupiainen
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- guitaristrecord producer
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Matias Kupiainen is a Finnish guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is the current guitarist in Stratovarius.
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Georg Malmstén
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- composerfilm directoractorsinger
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Georg Malmstén was a Finnish singer, musician, composer, orchestra conductor and actor. He was one of the most prolific entertainers in Finland of his time, producing over 800 records in numerous genres. In late 1930s, owning a record company, he made about half of his releases under the pseudonym Matti Reima. He was the oldest of three children of a Swedish-speaking family, with Russian ancestry through his mother, Eugenie Petroff, and brother of singer and bandleader Eugen Malmstén.
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Aulis Sallinen
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- composermusicologist
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Aulis Heikki Sallinen is a Finnish contemporary classical music composer. His music has been variously described as "remorselessly harsh", a "beautifully crafted amalgam of several 20th-century styles", and "neo-romantic". Sallinen studied at the Sibelius Academy, where his teachers included Joonas Kokkonen. He has had works commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, and has also written seven operas, eight symphonies, concertos for violin, cello, flute, horn, and English horn, as well as several chamber works. He won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 1978 for his opera Ratsumies (The Horseman).
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Erkki Melartin
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- composerconductor
- Biography
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Erkki Gustaf Melartin was a Finnish composer, conductor, and teacher of the late-Romantic and early-modern periods. Melartin is generally considered to be one of Finland's most significant national Romantic composers, although his music—then and now—largely has been overshadowed by that of his contemporary, Jean Sibelius, the country's most famous composer. The core of Melartin's oeuvre consists of a set of six (completed) symphonies, as well as is his opera, Aino, based on a story from the Kalevala, Finland's national epic, but nevertheless in the style of Richard Wagner.
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Henrik Otto Donner
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- film score composertrumpetercomposerjazz musician
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Henrik Otto Donner was a Finnish composer, musician and all-round music personality. His musical styles varied from pop and rock music to jazz, electronic music and contemporary classical music. Donner's personal instrument was trumpet. He was a member of the famous Finland Swedish Donner family.
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Reidar Särestöniemi
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts Helsinki
- Studied in 1947-1952
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Reidar Särestöniemi was a Finnish painter from Finnish Lapland. He is considered one of the greatest Finland-Lappish artists in the entire history of Finland.
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Olli Ahvenlahti
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- music arrangercomposerrecord producerjazz pianistpianist
- Biography
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Olli Ahvenlahti is a Finnish pianist, composer and conductor of Russian descent.
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Sam Vanni
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- photographersculptorpainter
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Sam Vanni was a Finnish painter. He is considered to be the pioneer of abstract art in Finland.
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Okko Kamu
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts Helsinki
- Studied in 1952-1969
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- concertmasterviolinistconductor
- Biography
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Okko Tapani Kamu is a Finnish orchestral conductor and violinist.
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Paavo Berglund
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- violinistconductor
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Paavo Allan Engelbert Berglund OBE was a Finnish conductor and violinist.
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Jutta Zilliacus
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- writerjournalistpolitician
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Jutta Armelle Zilliacus is a Finnish-born ethnic Estonian journalist and author in the Swedish language. She was also a politician, and served as a Member of Parliament for the Swedish People's Party for Helsinki from 1975 to 1986 and a member of the Helsinki City Council from 1968 to 1984.
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Selim Palmgren
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- composerpianistconductor
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Selim Gustaf Adolf Palmgren was a Finnish composer, pianist, and conductor. Palmgren was born in Pori, Finland, February 16, 1878. He studied at the Conservatory in Helsinki from 1895 to 1899, then continued his piano studies in Berlin with Ansorge, Berger and Busoni. He conducted choral and orchestral societies in his own country and made several very successful concert tours as a pianist in the principal cities of Finland and Scandinavia, appearing also as a visiting conductor. In 1921, he went to the United States, where he taught composition at the Eastman School of Music, later returning to Finland, where he died in Helsinki, aged 73. Palmgren was married to the opera singer Maikki Järnefelt from 1910 to her death in 1929.
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Aarre Merikanto
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- composerpianist
- Biography
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Aarre Merikanto was a Finnish composer.
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Kalevi Kiviniemi
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- organist
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Kalevi Ilmari Kiviniemi was a Finnish concert organist. He gave more than 2,000 concerts, and his discography includes nearly 200 titles, many of them featuring significant and unique organs in the US, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, Italy, France, Switzerland and Germany. Kiviniemi was also regarded as a distinguished improviser. He was the first to record the complete organ works by Jean Sibelius.
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George de Godzinsky
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts Helsinki
- Studied in 1930-1937
- Occupations
- composerpianistconductor
- Biography
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George de Godzinsky was a Finnish composer, pianist and conductor. De Godzinsky is known for his Schlager music although he composed music for movies and operettas.
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Ilkka Kuusisto
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- composer
- Biography
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Ilkka Taneli Kuusisto is a Finnish opera composer, conductor, choirmaster and organist.
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Minja Koskela
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- writerpolitician
- Biography
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Minja Koskela is a Finnish musician, author, politician, member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature, and chair of the Left Alliance. She has represented Helsinki since April 2023 as member of the Left Alliance.
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Einar Englund
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- composerpianistfilm score composer
- Biography
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Sven Einar Englund was a Finnish composer.
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Elina Vähälä
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Elina Vähälä is a Finnish classical violinist.
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Vilho Lampi
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts Helsinki
- Studied in 1921-1925
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Vilho Henrik Lampi was a Finnish painter who is best known for his self-portraits and paintings of Liminka and the people who lived there.
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Kuutti Lavonen
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts Helsinki
- Studied in 1980-1984
- Occupations
- designerphotographerphoto artistgraphic artistprofessor
- Biography
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Kuutti Lavonen is a Finnish painter, photographer, and graphic artist, who has worked as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts (Finland). His poetry book Havahtumisia was published in 2005 by Kirjapaja.
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Erik Bergman
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- composerconductormusic educatorchoir director
- Biography
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Erik Valdemar Bergman was a composer of classical music from Finland.
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Juhani Aaltonen
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- flautistcomposersaxophonistjazz musician
- Biography
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Juhani Aaltonen is a Finnish jazz saxophonist and flautist.
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Dima Slobodeniouk
- Occupations
- violinistconductor
- Biography
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Dima Slobodeniouk is a Finnish conductor based in Finland.
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Kim Borg
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts Helsinki
- Studied in 1936-1941
- Studied in 1945-1947
- Occupations
- composeropera singermusic educator
- Biography
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Kim Borg was a Finnish bass, teacher and composer. He had a wide-ranging, resonant, warm voice.
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Hannu Väisänen
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- writervisual artistpaintergraphic artist
- Biography
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Hannu Pekka Antero Väisänen is a graphic artist, painter and writer from Finland. He now lives in France, and his work has been shown in numerous European countries.
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Anu Komsi
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Anu Komsi is a Finnish operatic and concert soprano.
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Eva Ryynänen
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts Helsinki
- Studied in 1934-1939
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Eva Ryynänen was a Finnish sculptor known especially for her work in wood.
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Matti Lehtinen
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts Helsinki
- Studied in 1945-1948
- Occupations
- opera singerprofessor
- Biography
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Matti Kalervo Lehtinen was a Finnish operatic baritone, a long-term member of the Finnish National Opera, and professor of singing at the Sibelius Academy. He appeared at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and international opera houses, and as an oratorio and lieder singer.
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Erna Tauro
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- composerpianistmusic educator
- Biography
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Erna Tauro, née Pergament, was a Finnish-Swedish pianist and composer.
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Erkki Toivanen
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Erkki Matti Toivanen was a Finnish journalist and presenter for Yleisradio.
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Victor Westerholm
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- painter
- Biography
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Victor Axel Westerholm was a Finnish landscape painter, especially known for founding the Önningeby artists' colony.
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Yrjö Kilpinen
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- composer
- Biography
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Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen was a Finnish composer. He was born in Helsinki, and in 1907 he started his studies in the Helsingin Musiikkiopisto (later named Sibelius Academy). In 1910 Kilpinen moved to Vienna to continue his studies and from 1913 to 1914 he studied in Berlin. He travelled extensively in Scandinavia and central Europe, especially Germany. He became an honorary professor in 1942 and was elected to the Finnish Academy in 1948.
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Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
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- linguistsingerchoir directorcomposertranslator
- Biography
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Jaakko Mäntyjärvi is a Finnish composer of classical music, and a professional translator.
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Mari Kalkun
- Occupations
- singersongwriter
- Biography
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Mari Kalkun is an Estonian singer and musician who specializes in contemporary folk music. She has performed at home and abroad with the ensemble Runorum, releasing several recordings since 2007. In 2013, she was voted the best singer at Estonia's Ethno Music Awards. Her widely acclaimed 2018 album Ilmamõtsan consists of the songs inspired by Estonian traditional folk music, especially that from the villages of Kalkun's native Võru in south-eastern Estonia.
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Erkki Aaltonen
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts Helsinki
- Studied in 1947
- Occupations
- composerviolinistconductor
- Biography
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Erkki Aaltonen was a Finnish composer.
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Jukka Perko
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts Helsinki
- Studied in 1988
- Occupations
- composermusic educatorsaxophonist
- Biography
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Jukka Perko is a Finnish saxophonist.
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Jalmari Ruokokoski
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- painter
- Biography
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Joel Jalmari Ruokokoski, known as Jali was a Finnish Expressionist painter. Although most of his works were landscapes and still-lifes, he is probably best known for a series of portraits (including numerous self-portraits) painted mostly during the 1910s. Although Ruokokoski never officially joined the November Group, (Marraskuun ryhmä), he participated in the galleries set up by the group.
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Jussi Jalas
- Occupations
- composermusic educatorconductoruniversity teacherpianist
- Biography
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Jussi Jalas was a Finnish conductor and composer.
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Paavo Heininen
- Occupations
- composition teacheruniversity teacherpianistpedagoguecomposer
- Biography
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Paavo Johannes Heininen was a Finnish composer and pianist.
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Arto Noras
- Occupations
- musiciancellist
- Biography
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Arto Noras is a Finnish cellist who is one of Finland's most celebrated instrumentalists and amongst the most outstanding internationally acknowledged cellists of his generation.
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Adolf Paul
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- writerscreenwriter
- Biography
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Adolf Georg Wiedersheim-Paul was a Swedish novelist and playwright. He lived most of his adult life in Berlin, Germany, where he was a friend of Swedish writer August Strindberg, Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, Norwegian painter Edvard Munch and Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela.
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Taneli Kuusisto
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts Helsinki
- Studied in 1923-1935
- Occupations
- music criticcomposerorganistpianistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Taneli Kuusisto was a Finnish composer, music critic, teacher and choir leader.
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Jukka Linkola
- Enrolled in the University of the Arts Helsinki
- Studied in 1972-1980
- Occupations
- composerpianistconductorjazz musician
- Biography
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Jukka Tapio Linkola is a Finnish jazz pianist and classical composer. He has composed music for the Finnish National Opera and led several jazz Big Bands. In addition he has won two Jussi awards for his film music, which another came from the 1988 film The Glory and Misery of Human Life. His euphonium concerto is considered a standard in the repertoire.
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Marian Petrescu
- Occupations
- pianistjazz musician
- Biography
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Marian Petrescu is a Romanian jazz pianist. Playing since the age of 4, he has been on the jazz scene since the age of 15 after appearing at Pori Jazz. He is known for his work with the renowned jazz guitarist Andreas Öberg, and many others.
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Antti Siirala
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- pianist
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Antti Aleksi Siirala is a Finnish pianist.
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Erkki Salmenhaara
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- music criticwritercomposermusicologist
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Erkki Olavi Salmenhaara was a Finnish composer and musicologist.
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Usko Meriläinen
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- composerfilm score composerconductor
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Usko Aatos Meriläinen was a Finnish composer. He was born in Tampere.
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Väinö Raitio
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- composer
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Väinö Eerikki Raitio was part of the small group of composers who appeared in the Finnish art music scene in the 1920s with a new cosmopolitan music style, very different from the dominant conservative National Romanticism.
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Helvi Leiviskä
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- librariancomposerwritermusic educator
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Helvi Lemmikki Leiviskä was a Finnish composer, writer, music educator, and librarian at the Sibelius Academy.
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Verner Thomé
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- painter
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Verner Thomé was a Finnish Post-Impressionist graphic artist. He was influenced by Vitalism a German-Scandinavian movement that incorporated Nietzsche's philosophy.
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Birger Carlstedt
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- painter
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John Birger Jarl Carlstedt was a Finnish painter and a pioneer of Modern Art in Finland. His painting style went through various changes, with influences from Impressionism, Expressionism, Futurism and abstract art.
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Nils-Eric Fougstedt
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- composerchoir directorconductor
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Nils-Eric Fougstedt was a Finnish conductor and composer. He attended the Helsinki Conservatory and counted Erik Furuhjelm among his teachers.
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Sasha Mäkilä
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- conductor
- Biography
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Sasha Aleksi Mäkilä is a Finnish conductor.
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Lennart Segerstråle
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- graphic artistpainterillustrator
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Lennart Rafael Segerstråle was a Swedish-speaking Finnish painter and graphic artist. He was best known for his murals and frescoes.
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Jimmy López
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- composerpianistconductor
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Jimmy López is a classical music composer from Lima, Peru. He has won several international awards and has been nominated to a Latin Grammy Awards. Pieces composed by him have been performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Peru, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony, and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. His works have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, Gewandhaus Leipzig, and during the 2010 Youth Olympic games in Singapore. His music has been featured in numerous festivals, including Tanglewood Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Grant Park Music Festival, Darmstadt International Course for New Music, and Donaueschingen Music Festival.
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Tauno Marttinen
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- composerconductor
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Tauno Olavi Marttinen was a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music.
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Maggie Gripenberg
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- choreographerteacherballet dancerpainterballerina
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Margarita Maria “Maggie” Gripenberg was a pioneer of modern dance in Finland. She was the first to introduce Dalcroze Eurhythmics to Finland and modeled her early works on the improvisational style of Isadora Duncan. As a dancer, choreographer and teacher, she laid the educational foundations for the study of movement and dance. She was recognized by numerous awards for her choreographic work as well as being honored with the Pro Finlandia Medal and as a knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland.
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Ukri Merikanto
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- sculptorvisual artistteacher
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Ukri Uolevi Merikanto was a Finnish sculptor.
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Jarmo Saari
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 55)
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- composerrecord producerguitarist
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Jarmo Ilari Saari is a Finnish guitarist, composer and producer. He has played in the bands XL, ZetaBoo and Anna-Mari Kähärän orkesteri as well as published three solo records as a part of his Solu-project. In 2012 Jarmo Saari founded the band Jarmo Saari Republic together with three drummers. In 2012 Saari was also awarded with the Finland Award (Finnish: Suomi-palkinto) for his artistic work.
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Kari Kriikku
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- clarinetistmusician
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Kari Kriikku is a Finnish classical clarinetist.
