KORTEKANGAS, OLLI (, Turku), composer.
Kortekangas studied composition at the Sibelius Academy with Einojuhani Rautavaara and Eero Hämeenniemi from 1974 to 1981, did studies at the University of Helsinki and later in West Berlin with Dieter Schnebel in 1981 and 1982. He has taught at the Sibelius Academy since 1984 and is active as a journalist, choral conductor, and performer of his own works.
Kortekangas is known for his peculiar sense of humor, and Threnody (1977), for...