MUSTONEN, OLLI (, Helsinki), pianist, composer, appointed artistic director of the Turku Music Festival in 1989 at the age of twenty-two.
Mustonen began playing the family harpsichord at an early age. From the age of eight he had composition lessons with Einojuhani Rautavaara, and at ten he began piano studies with Eero Heinonen at the Sibelius Academy. Mustonen gave the first performance of his own Divertimento for piano and orchestra at the age of twelve in 1979.
In 1984,...