🎤 Jorma Panula

About

Jorma Panula (born 1930) is a Finnish conductor, composer and legendary teacher of conducting who has shaped Nordic musical life for decades. He served as chief conductor of the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra from 1973 to 1976, and as a professor at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki he trained an entire generation of conductors, among them Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Klaus Mäkelä. He also founded the international Panula Conducting Competition in Vaasa and runs his own Panula Academy, where he still teaches young conducting students.