MERILÄINEN, USKO
(*1930)> COMPOSER · TEACHER
MERILÄINEN, USKO (Jan. 27, 1930, Tampere), composer, and teacher. Meriläinen studied at the Sibelius Academy from 1951 to 1955, receiving diplomas in composition and orchestral conducting. He also studied serialism with Ernst Krenek in Darmstadt in 1956 and with Wladimir Vogel in Ascona in 1959. He worked at the Finnish Opera as a choral conductor 1954 to 1956, in Kuopio as orchestral conductor and teacher in the music school from 1956 to 1957, in Tampere as a theater conductor from 1957 to…