Jorma Panula
Jorma Panula (born August 10, 1930 in Kauhajoki , Finland ) is a Finnish conductor, teacher of conducting and composer.
Panula studied church music and conducting at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki . His teachers included Leo Funtek , Dean Dixon , Albert Wolff and Franco Ferrara .
He was artistic director and chief conductor of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra from 1963 to 1965, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra from 1965 to 1972 and the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra from 1973 to 1976.
From 1973 to 1994 Jorma Panula taught as a professor of conducting at the Sibelius Academy , the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and the Royal Danish College of Music in Copenhagen . A whole series of conductors who are well-known today went through his school, including Esa-Pekka Salonen , Mikko Franck , Sakari Oramo , Jukka-Pekka Saraste , Osmo Vänskä and Markus Poschner .
In recent years Jorma Panula has severely restricted his own conducting activities and mainly leads master classes all over the world.
Panula has also composed a large number of his own pieces. The opera Jaako Ilkka was premiered in 1977 by the Finnish National Opera with him at the conductor's desk. This opera and the Jokiooppera ( river opera ) with their combination of music, visual impressions and folk echoes represent a new opera genre similar to the Singspiel . His other compositions include musicals, church music, a violin concerto, a jazz capriccio and numerous Vocal works.
In autumn 1997 Jorma Panula was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .
Web link
- The Jorma Panula Foundation (English, with portrait)
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| SURNAME | Panula, Jorma |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kauhajoki , Finland |