MIKKILÄ, TIMO (, Lahti), pianist and teacher.
Timo Mikkilä studied piano privately and at the Helsinki Conservatory (now the Sibelius Academy) from 1930 to 1932, and in Paris at various periods between 1933 and 1955, including a period with Nadia Boulanger. He gave his first recital in Helsinki in 1932. From 1938 to 1975 he taught at the Sibelius Academy, training a whole generation of the country's pianists. Mikkilä appeared in hundreds of concerts in Finland and in...