SEGERSTAM, LEIF
(*1944)> COMPOSER · CONDUCTOR · VIOLINIST
SEGERSTAM, LEIF (Mar. 2, 1944, Vaasa), composer, conductor, and violinist. Segerstam studied piano and violin at the Sibelius Academy from 1952 to 1963 and received his diploma in both violin and conducting. Segerstam won the Maj Lind Piano Competition in 1962, and the following year gave his debut recital as a violinist. From 1963 to 1965 he studied conducting, violin, and composition at New York's Juilliard School of Music. Already having conducted a performance of Barber of Seville in…