Jorma Panula
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 Jorma Panula in 2009 | |
| Born | 10 August 1930 |
| Nationality | Finnish |
| Other names | Jorma Juhani Panula |
| Occupation(s) | Conductor, composer |
Jorma Juhani Panula(born 10 August 1930) is a Finnish conductor, composer, and teacher of conducting. He has mentored many Finnish conductors, such asEsa-Pekka Salonen,Mikko Franck,Sakari Oramo,Jukka-Pekka Saraste,Osmo Vänskä,Klaus MäkeläandTarmo Peltokoski.
Career[edit]
Panula was born inKauhajoki.He studied church music and conducting at the Sibelius Academy. His teachers includedLeo Funtek,Dean Dixon,Albert WolffandFranco Ferrara.Apart from conducting, he has composed a wide variety of music. His operasJaakko Ilkkaand theRiver Operaestablished a new genre called "performance opera", which fused music, visual art and the art of daily life. Panula's other compositions includemusicals,church music, a violin concerto, jazz capriccio and numerous pieces of vocal music.
Panula was the artistic director and chief conductor of theTurku Philharmonic Orchestrafrom 1963 to 1965, theHelsinki Philharmonic Orchestrafrom 1965 to 1972 and theAarhus Symphony Orchestrafrom 1973 to 1976. He has also conducted his own operaJaakko Ilkkaat theFinnish National Opera.
Panula has served as Professor of Conducting at theSibelius AcademyinHelsinkifrom 1973 to 1994 and at theRoyal College of Music in Stockholmand theRoyal Danish Academy of MusicinCopenhagen.[1]As a pedagogue, Panula has been a teacher and mentor to many Finnish conductors, includingEsa-Pekka Salonen,Mikko Franck,Sakari Oramo,Jukka-Pekka Saraste,Osmo Vänskä,[2]Dalia Stasevska,Santtu-Matias Rouvali,Klaus MäkeläandTarmo Peltokoski.
He has taught conducting courses all over the world, such as in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Moscow, New York, Tanglewood, Aspen, Ottawa and Sydney. Panula was listed as one of the "60 most powerful people in music" featured in the November 2000 issue ofBBC Music Magazine.Panula was awarded theRolf Schock Prizein 1997.[3]He conducted the Helsinki City Symphony Orchestra in the première in December 1971 of thefirst symphonybyAulis Sallinen.[4]
In March 2014, 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 asDebussy,but that they were unsuited for conductingBruckner.He stated that "women [conductors]… Of course they are trying! Some of them are making faces, sweating and fussing, but it is not getting any better – only worse!... It’s not a problem – if they choose the right pieces. If they take more feminine music... This is a purely biological question."[5][6]Other conductors, such as his former student Salonen, responded critically to Panula's remarks.[7]
References[edit]
- ^Ellison, Cori (22 February 1998)."Making Maestros for the World".New York Times.Retrieved1 March2009.
- ^Reader's Digest(Finland), November 1998.
- ^"Pristagare".The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences(in Swedish).Retrieved21 January2021.
- ^Sallinen, Aulis (January 1987),Catalogue,London: Novello
- ^Vincent, Michael (5 April 2014)."Editorial: CBC Classical music gender gap article poses new questions".Ludwig van Toronto.Retrieved13 January2024.
- ^"Jorma Panula naiskapellimestareista:" Saahan ne yrittää "".MTV Finland(in Finnish). 30 March 2014. Archived fromthe originalon 7 April 2014.Retrieved13 January2024.
Mutta naiset... Kyllähän ne yrittää! Toiset irvistää ja rehkii ja präiskyttää mutta ei se siitä parane, pahenoo vain!... Niin, tämä on puhtaasti biologinen kysymys
- ^Paavonen, Mia (31 March 2014)."Jorma Panulan rajut kommentit naiskapellimestareista saavat täystyrmäyksen".Ilta Sanomat(in Finnish). Archived fromthe originalon 14 December 2014.Retrieved14 December2014.
Further reading[edit]
- Barone, Joshua (8 September 2023)."The Teacher Behind the World's Great Conductors".The New York Times.Retrieved10 September2023.
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