SARMANTO, HEIKKI (, Helsinki), pianist, composer, who combines jazz and National Romanticism, currently lives in New York.
Sarmanto studied piano and musical theory at the Sibelius Academy from 1962 to 1964. From 1968 to 1971 he studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Sarmanto has produced a number of works for choir and orchestra. His New Hope Jazz Mass (1978) was first performed in New York. A symphonic poem Suomi (Finland, 1984) calls for string orchestra and...