PANULA, JORMA (, Kauhajoki), conductor, composer, and famed teacher of conductors such as Esa-Pekka Salonen (see SALONEN, ESA-PEKKA), Jukka-Pekka Saraste (see SARASTE, JUKKA-PEKKA), and a plethora of young conductors from all the Scandinavian countries.
Panula studied conducting from 1948 to 1953 at the Sibelius Academy with Leo Funtek, in 1953 in Lund with Dean Dixon, in 1957 at Hilversum with Albert Wolff, and in 1958 at Hilversum with Franco Ferrara. Between 1950 and...