Jouko Saari - Performer

Jouko Saari is a Finnish conductor and composer, born in Stockholm on 23 November 1944. After graduating from the Kallio Collegiate School in Helsinki in 1962, he studied at the Sibelius Academy (1962-1968), where he graduated in orchestral conducting and also took degrees in school, church and general music with organ and trumpet as main instruments. He also studied musicology at the University of Helsinki (1965-1967) and, as a Fulbright fellow, orchestral conducting and opera at Indiana University (1969-1970). He has worked as an organist, music teacher, trumpeter, accompanist and orchestral assistant, and as a conductor and chorus master for opera societies, theatres, the Savonlinna Opera Festival and the Finnish National Opera. Active as a conductor in Finland and abroad since 1968, he has held engagements at the opera houses of Hämeenlinna, Tampere, Cologne and Gothenburg, and was chief conductor of the Lahti City Orchestra (now Sinfonia Lahti) from 1978 to 1984, succeeding Urpo Pesonen. He later worked as a freelance conductor. As a composer he has written works for brass band, Meditaatio for strings (1973), choral works and spiritual songs, organ arrangements, a Suite for three trumpets and chamber music for winds; one of his songs won the Nurmes Christmas song competition in 2000. Source: Rondo DB


Usual Name	Jouko Saari
Ensembles	Lahti Symphony Orchestra from 1978 to 1984 Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra from 1973 to 1974
Links	Edition Tilli , BnF

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