Artist: Kimmo Pohjonen
Genre(s):
Experimental
Discography:
Kluster
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
Kielo
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
The recipient of Folk Musician of the Year awards in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999, Kimmo Pohjonen has brought a modern sensibility to the traditional piano accordion music of Finland. A ex-serviceman of pop and rock bands, Pohjonen continues to apply what he's well-read to the phratry music of his native land. His debut record album, Kielo, released in March, 1999, was named one of the year's topper albums by Finland's leading day-to-day newspaper, Helsingen Sanomat.
The logos of a forte-piano piano accordion participant, Pohjonen began playing the button piano accordion at the age of tenner. After perusing classic music at Helsinki Conservatory, from 1980 until 1985, he continued to study classic and sept music at Helsinki's Sibelius Academy, which he tended to from 1985 until 1996. During the same clip, he studied at the Bagamoyo College of Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Initially attracting attention with his melodeon playing as a phallus belt down and rock music bands, including Toni Rossi And Sinitaivas, Pohjonen was invited to join Finnish folk chemical group Ottopasuuna. He remained with Ottopasuuna until 1998 when he in short united a rock band, Ismo Alanko Saatio. Pohjonen balances his solo vocation with performances and recordings in Pinnin Pojat, a duo that he shares with JPP fiddler Arto Jarvela.
Pohjonen collaborated with Tapiola Sinfonietta in the spring of 2000 on an original musical production, Kalmusikkisin Fonia, that included a light usher and quadrophonic sound personal effects. The show up debuted with ternary performances at the Savoy Theater in Helsinki.
Pohjonen teaches at Sibelius Academy.
