KOIVISTOINEN, EERO (, Helsinki), alto saxophonist, jazz musician.
Koivistoinen began his studies at the Sibelius Academy in the mid 1960s as a violinist but soon switched to alto saxophone, studying with Eero Linnala and composition with Aulis Sallinen. He studied for several months at the Berklee School of Music in Boston with Herb Pomeroy and Joe Viola in the early 1970s. From 1973 to 1974 he studied again at the Sibelius Academy. He has since taught jazz at the...