| Sibelius Academy | |
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| Sibelius-Akatemia Sibelius-Akademin |
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 Sibelius Academy in central Helsinki |
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| Established | 1882 |
| Type | Public |
| Rector | Gustav Djupsjöbacka |
| Students | 1,700 |
| Location | Helsinki, Finland 60°10′18″N 024°55′56″E / 60.17167°N 24.93222°ECoordinates: 60°10′18″N 024°55′56″E / 60.17167°N 24.93222°E |
| Nickname | Siba |
| Website | www.siba.fi |
The Sibelius Academy (Finnish: Sibelius-Akatemia, Swedish: Sibelius-Akademin) is a university level music school which operates in Helsinki and Kuopio, Finland (also adult education centre in Järvenpää and training centre in Seinäjoki). The Academy is the only music university in Finland. It is among the biggest European music universities with roughly 1,700 enrolled students. It was founded in 1882 as Helsingfors musikinstitut ("Helsinki Music Institute") and was renamed Sibelius-Akatemia in 1939 to honour its own former student and Finland's most celebrated composer Jean Sibelius.
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Degrees
The primary degree at the Sibelius Academy is the Master of Music (MMus) degree. The school also offers postgraduate degrees with artistic and research options. The postgraduate degrees are the Licentiate of Arts in Music Lic.A. (Mus.) and the doctoral degree of Doctor of Arts in Music D.A. (Mus.)
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Church Music
- Degree Programme in Composition and Music Theory
- Degree Programme in Folk Music
- Degree Programme in Jazz Music
- Degree Programme in Orchestral and Choral Conducting
- Degree Programme in Music Education
- Degree Programme in Music Technology
- Degree Programme in Music Performance
- Degree Programme in Vocal Music
Junior Academy
Junior Academy is nation-wide and open to gifted school children. Virtually every Finnish internationally recognized musician has spent adolescent years at the Junior Academy. It is not an actual study programme as each student follows his/her own curriculum. Classes are usually held on Saturdays. About half of the 130 students, who are school children, travel from outside the Greater Helsinki area for weekend music lessons at the Academy. Professors teach many of them in the same way as students of the programme for solo performance, i.e. two hours per week in their main instrument. Studies in composition, jazz and folk music are possible and supplementary subjects, orchestral playing, chamber music and music theory are also studied at the Junior Academy.
Notable students and faculty (past and present)
- Linda Brava, violinist
- Leo Funtek (1885–1965), violinist, conductor, arranger and music professor
- Markus Hohti, cellist
- Soile Isokoski, soprano
- Sari Kaasinen, folk musician
- Perttu Kivilaakso, cellist in the band Apocalyptica
- Matias Kupiainen, lead guitarist of the band Stratovarius
- Pekka Kuusisto, violinist
- Topi Lehtipuu, tenor
- Max Lilja, cellist in the band Hevein and founding member of Apocalyptica
- Magnus Lindberg, composer
- Paavo Lötjönen, cellist in the band Apocalyptica
- Antero Manninen, cellist in the band Apocalyptica and cellist in the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
- Karita Mattila, soprano
- Elina Mustonen, harpsichordist
- Olli Mustonen, pianist
- Arto Noras, student of Paul Tortelier
- Sakari Oramo, the conductor of The Finnish Radio Symphony
- Jorma Panula, conductor, composer and teacher
- Martti Pokela, founder of the folk music department and former professor of the kantele[1]
- Einojuhani Rautavaara, composer
- Martti Rousi, cello teacher
- Kaija Saariaho, composer
- David Searle (conductor), orchestral conductor of The Catholic University of America Symphony Orchestra
- Arja Saijonmaa, singer
- Aulis Sallinen, composer
- Matti Salminen, bass
- Esa-Pekka Salonen, the conductor of the LA Philharmonic
- Jukka-Pekka Saraste, former conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
- Soila Sariola, singer of the double platinum awarded and multiple gold winning vocal ensemble Rajaton
- Leif Segerstam, the conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic
- Jean Sibelius, composer
- Antti Siirala, the winner of the Dublin, Leeds, and Beethoven international piano competitions
- Eicca Toppinen, cellist in the band Apocalyptica
- Tarja Turunen, the former singer of the symphonic metal band Nightwish
- Paula Vesala, singer of PMMP
- Osmo Vänskä, the conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra
- Club for Five, a Finnish award winning gold status vocal band whose members studied at the academy
- Petri Prauda, Finnish bagpipes
References
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