Artist Info: Jorma Panula

Jorma Panula (born 10 August 1930 in Kauhajoki) is a Finnish conductor, composer, and professor of conducting.

Panula is a graduate of the Sibelius Academy, where he studied the organ, church music and conducting.
His teachers have included Leo Funtek, Dean Dixon, Albert Wolff and Franco Ferrara.

After his studies at the Sibelius Academy, Panula worked as the artistic director and chief conductor of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra (1963–1965) [read more...]