Jorma Panula has mentored many Finnish conductors, such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mikko Franck, Sakari Oramo, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Osmo Vanska and Klaus Makela.
10 Facts About Jorma Panula
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Jorma Panula studied church music and conducting at the Sibelius Academy.
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Jorma Panula's teachers included Leo Funtek, Dean Dixon, Albert Wolff and Franco Ferrara.
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Jorma Panula was the artistic director and chief conductor of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra from 1963 to 1965, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra from 1965 to 1972 and the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra from 1973 to 1976.
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Jorma Panula has conducted his own opera Jaakko Ilkka at the Finnish National Opera.
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Jorma Panula has served as Professor of Conducting at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki from 1973 to 1994 and at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen.
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Jorma Panula has taught conducting courses all over the world, such as in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Moscow, New York, Tanglewood, Aspen, Ottawa and Sydney.
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Jorma Panula was listed as one of the "60 most powerful people in music" featured in the November 2000 issue of BBC Music Magazine.
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Jorma Panula conducted the Helsinki City Symphony Orchestra in the premiere in December 1971 of the first symphony by Aulis Sallinen.
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In March 2014, Jorma 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 Debussy, but that they were unsuited for conducting Bruckner.