Timo Alakotila
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Timo Alakotila | |
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Born | 15 July 1959 |
Nationality | Finnish |
Occupation(s) | Composer, Arranger, and Musician |
Timo Alakotila is a
Career
Timo Alakotila's range of music styles stretches from Finnish
Another of Alakotila's projects is Unto Tango Orchestra (Tango-orkesteri Unto), a tango orchestra that was formed to perform at Expo '98 in Lisbon, Portugal. This groups mainly plays Alakotila's rather chamber-music-like arrangements of Finnish tango. In 2004 BBC Concert Orchestra, JPP and Maria Kalaniemi performed music written by Alakotila for the occasion. Among his more "classic style" works is a folk-music/chamber hybrid, a concerto for accordion and orchestra, originally performed at the folk music festival Haapavesi Folk with Johanna Juhola as the soloist.[1] Alakotila's piece, Pelimanni's Revenge, was arranged by violist, Ralph Farris, for the string quartet ETHEL and was released on their 2006 album Light (Cantaloupe Music).[2]
Alakotila also works as a teacher at the Sibelius Academy and at the Helsinki Pop & Jazz Conservatory.
References
- ^ http://www.hoedown.com/main.site?action=siteupdate/view&id=6 Timo's bio on his managements site
- ^ Cantaloupe Music page Archived March 19, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
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