Juho Laitinen works as an instrumentalist, composer, pedagogue and scholar. After studying the cello and voice in Turku, London and New York, he received a doctoral degree from Sibelius Academy in 2013. Laitinen has performed internationally and composed acoustic and electronic music for concerts, films and installations. As director of Tulkinnanvaraista, a forum for new and experimental music, he conducts the resident ensemble UMUU and works as dramaturge in the forum’s music theatre productions. He has also initiated the founding of Naarmu Ensemble, a collective of enthusiasts of music and live art open to all.

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