LÄNSIÖ, TAPANI (, Helsinki), composer and conductor.
Länsiö studied music theory and composition at the Sibelius Academy with Joonas Kokkonen and Paavo Heininen, receiving his diploma in 1988. From 1990 he has taught twentieth-century music at the Sibelius Academy. He has also worked as a critic for the Helsingin Sanomat (Helsinki News). Since the 1980s he has served as the director of the Polytechnic Choir, raising its artistic standards to a great height in the performance...