Jorma Panula

Jorma Panula ( born August 10, 1930 in Kauhajoki, Finland) is a Finnish conductor, teacher for conducting and composer.

Panula studied church music and conducting at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Among his teachers were Leo Funtek, Dean Dixon, Albert Wolff and Franco Ferrara.

He was the artistic director and chief conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra Turku from 1963 to 1965, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra from 1965 to 1972 and the Symphony Orchestra Aarhus from 1973 until 1976.

From 1973 to 1994 Jorma Panula has been a professor of conducting at the Sibelius Academy, the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. Through his school went a whole range today known conductors such as Esa -Pekka Salonen, Mikko Franck, Sakari Oramo, Jukka -Pekka Saraste, Osmo Vänskä and Markus Poschner.

In recent years, Jorma Panula has severely restricted its own conductor's activity and mainly conducts master classes around the world.

Panula has also composed a number of his own pieces. The opera Jaako Ilkka 1977 premiered by the Finnish National Opera with himself conducting. This opera and the Jokiooppera (river Opera ) make with their combination of music, visual impressions and popular hints a new, the Singspiel similar operatic genre dar. His other compositions include musicals, church music, a violin concerto, a jazz Capriccio and numerous vocal works.

In the fall of 1997, Jorma Panula winners of awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Rolf Schock Prize.

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