HÄMEENNIEMI, EERO (, Valkeakoski), composer, and a member and first chairman of the 1970s avant-garde group of composers Korvat Auki (Open Ears).
Hämeenniemi studied composition with Paavo Heininen, receiving his diploma in 1978. He continued his studies in 1979 in Cracow and in Siena and in Rochester, New York, at the Eastman School of Music with Joseph Schwantner in 1980 and 1981. From 1984 to 1992 he taught composition at the Sibelius Academy. In 1993 he received a fifteen-year...