Paavo | ja

Paavoharju comes from Savonlinna, Finland where brothers Lauri and Olli Ainala met Emmi Uimonen, Jenni Koivistoinen and some other people. Paavoharju's music is outcome of long time, intense study of art and literature, dreams, religious despair and living in dark abandoned places. The sound is something between Bollywood music, church hymns, beautiful pop tunes and ambient esoteric noises. The music is unlike anything heard on this planet yet still oddly comforting. Paavoharju released Yhä hämärää in 2005 and a follow-up Laulu laakson kukista was released in 2008. .

Paavo Swedish young jazz. bandleaders are Sofia Jernberg (voc) and Cecilia Persson (pi) More info also at: www.paavopaavo.com .

Grammy-award winning Paavo Järvi has built a remarkable conducting reputation. Born in Tallinn, Estonia, he studied percussion and conducting at the Tallinn School of Music then, in 1980, moved to the USA where he continued his studies at the Curtis Institute of Music and at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, with Leonard Bernstein. He became Music Director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in September 2001 and has recently extended his contract with the orchestra until 2011/12. During his Music Directorship they have toured together throughout America (including a California and a West Coast tour) and Japan. Their second tour of...