Jorma Panula (August 10, 1930 Kauhajoella) is a Finnish conductor, composer, and teacher of conducting. August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ...

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 from 1970 to 1973. He has been a frequent guest conductor of the Finnish National Opera. The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra (Finnish: Helsingin kaupunginorkesteri) is an orchestra in Helsinki, Finland. ... The Finnish National Opera (Finnish: Kansallisooppera) in Helsinki is the leading opera company in Finland. ...

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. The Sibelius Academy in downtown Helsinki. ... Founded 1550 Province Southern Finland Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki Area[1] - Of which land - Rank 185. ... The Royal College of Music, Stockholm (Swedish Kungliga Musikhögskolan i Stockholm) is an institution of higher education in music, founded in 1771 as the conservatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. ... Copenhagen (IPA: , rhyming with pagan (the way the Danes themselves pronounce the name of the capital when saying it in English), or , with a as in spa; Danish IPA: ) is the capital of Denmark and the countrys largest city (metropolitan population 1,211,542 (2006)), at present made up...

Panula has had great influence on the world of conducting through teaching. His has been called the "hidden hand" behind the extraordinary succession of fine conductors that came out of Finland. His students include Esa-Pekka Salonen (now in Los Angeles), Mikko Franck (now in Belgium and at the Finnish National Opera), Sakari Oramo (who succeeded Simon Rattle in Birmingham, England) , Jukka-Pekka Saraste, and Osmo Vänskä (currently in Minnesota). Esa-Pekka Salonen (born June 30, 1958 in Helsinki) is a prominent Finnish orchestral conductor and composer. ... Mikko Franck (January 2, 1979- ) is a Finnish conductor. ... The Finnish National Opera (Finnish: Kansallisooppera) in Helsinki is the leading opera company in Finland. ... Sakari Oramo (born 1965) is a Finnish conductor. ... Simon Rattle recording Porgy and Bess with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road in 1988 Sir Simon Denis Rattle, CBE OL (born January 19, 1955) is an English conductor. ... Jukka-Pekka Saraste (born April 22, 1956) is a Finnish conductor. ... The conductor Osmo Vänskä (* 28. ...

Panula studied church music and conducting at the Sibelius Academy. His teachers have been: Leo Funtek, Dean Dixon, Albert Wolff and Franco Ferrara. Apart from conducting, he has composed a wide variety of music. His operas Jaako Ilkka and the River Opera established a genre entitled "performance opera" for its fusion of music, visual art and the art of daily life. Panula's other compositions include musicals, church music, a violin concerto, jazz capriccio and nummerous pieces of vocal music. Dean Dixon (January 10, 1915, New York City - November 3, 1976, Zürich) was an American conductor. ... Albert Wolff is a European conductor and Dutch parentage. ... Franco Ferrara (4 July 1911 - 6 September 1985) was an Italian conductor. ...

He is now a guest conductor and professor of conducting courses all over the world including Paris, London, Amsterdam, Moscow, New York, Tanglewood, Aspen, Ottawa and Sydney.