Mikko Innanen (musician)

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Mikko Innanen, Moers Festival 2007

Mikko Innanen (* 1978 in Lapinjärvi ) is a Finnish jazz musician ( saxophone , clarinet ) and composer in the field of modern creative and new improvisation music .

Live and act

Innanen began playing alto saxophone at the age of ten and initially had lessons at the music school in Loviisa , where he lived with his family from 1988. In 1994 he moved to Helsinki to study at the jazz department of the Sibelius Academy , from which he graduated in 2003 with a master's degree. In 1998/99 he was an exchange student at the Rytmisk Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. From the 2000s he worked in the Scandinavian jazz and improvisation scene. He had his own band projects (with Samuli Mikkonen and Seppo Kantonen and his band Innkvisitio ), but was also involved in other groups such as PLOP , Delirium , Triot (with bassist Nicolai Munch-Hansen and drummer Stefan Pasborg) and Gourmet . Innanen also formed a trio with Joe Fonda and Lou Grassi . He also worked with Han Bennink , Iro Haarla ( Penguin Benguine ), in a duo with Mika Kallio and in band projects a. a. by Kalle Kalima , Pekka Tuppurainen / Magnus Broo , Jori Huhtala and Wade Mikkola as well as in Petter Eldh's quintet Koma Saxo (with Otis Sandsjö , Jonas Kullhammar and Christian Lillinger ).

Alex Henderson sees Innanen both as a composer and as a soloist strongly influenced by Ornette Coleman , but he also processes the atmospheric, dark aspects in John Coltrane's music .

Awards

As the best soloist he was honored in 2000 at the International Competition for Jazz Groups in Getxo , Spain ; In 2001 he received the first prize at the Jukka Perko Saxophone Contest in Huittinen . As Finnish Jazz Musician of the Year , he was honored with the Yrjö Award of the Finnish Jazz Federation in 2008. The Finnish Academy of the Arts ( Taiteen keskustoimikunta ) awarded him a three-year scholarship in 2009. In 2011 he was nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize.

Mikko Innanen (2014)

Discographic notes

  • Mr. Fonebone: Live featuring Ingrid Jensen (Texicalli, 2000)
  • Triot: Sudden Happiness ( TUM , 2002) with John Tchicai
  • Eclexistence (TUM, 2004)
  • Mikko Innanen, Jaak Sooäär & Han Bennink: Spring Odyssey (TUM, 2006)
  • F60.8 (Aeon / Ilma, 2007)
  • Kalle Kalima & K-18: Some Kubricks Of Blood (TUM, 2009)
  • Mikko Innanen & Innkvisitio: Clustrophy (TUM, 2011), with Fredrik Ljungkvist
  • Andrew Barker / Mikko Innanen: A Wink Is as Good as a Nod (Phantom Ear Music, 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mikko Innanen at Allmusic (English)
  2. ↑ Biography on Innanens website
personal data
SURNAME Innanen, Mikko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Lapinjärvi