Jorma Panula
Jorma Panula | |
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Finnish | |
Other names | Jorma Juhani Panula |
Occupation(s) | Conductor, composer |
Jorma Juhani Panula (born 10 August 1930) 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.
Career
Panula was born in Kauhajoki. He studied church music and conducting at the Sibelius Academy. His teachers included Leo Funtek, Dean Dixon, Albert Wolff and Franco Ferrara. Apart from conducting, he has composed a wide variety of music. His operas Jaakko Ilkka and the River Opera established a new genre called "performance opera", which fused music, visual art and the art of daily life. Panula's other compositions include musicals, church music, a violin concerto, jazz capriccio and numerous pieces of vocal music.
Panula was the artistic director and chief conductor of the
Panula has served as Professor of Conducting at the
He has taught conducting courses all over the world, such as in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Moscow, New York, Tanglewood, Aspen, Ottawa and Sydney. Panula was listed as one of the "60 most powerful people in music" featured in the November 2000 issue of BBC Music Magazine. Panula was awarded the
In March 2014, Panula caused controversy in a Finnish television interview with remarks that denigrated the ability of women to conduct particular composers, and that women were suited to conducting music that was "feminine enough", such as
References
- New York Times. Retrieved 1 March 2009.
- ^ Reader's Digest (Finland), November 1998.
- The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences(in Swedish). Retrieved 21 January 2021.
- ^ Sallinen, Aulis (January 1987), Catalogue, London: Novello
- ^ Vincent, Michael (5 April 2014). "Editorial: CBC Classical music gender gap article poses new questions". Ludwig van Toronto. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
- MTV Finland (in Finnish). 30 March 2014. Archived from the originalon 7 April 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
Mutta naiset... Kyllähän ne yrittää! Toiset irvistää ja rehkii ja präiskyttää mutta ei se siitä parane, pahenoo vain! ... Niin, tämä on puhtaasti biologinen kysymys
- Ilta Sanomat (in Finnish). Archived from the originalon 14 December 2014. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
Further reading
- Barone, Joshua (8 September 2023). "The Teacher Behind the World's Great Conductors". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 September 2023.