cv in English

I am secondary school graduate and have studies in music at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and the Conservatory of Helsinki.

I am a freelance musician and author. My first novel is about to be published in 15th of march this year. I teach drumming and work a lot with computers; making music, editing audio and video etc.

I’ve been using computers in music since the 1980s. I’ve had a home studio from 1984 first with hardware sequencers like Roland MC-500 and Korg SQD-1. I’m familiar with Windows but mostly using Mac OS nowadays.

I’ve had more than 6000 gigs as a musician, first trombonist and then as a drummer (the number of gigs would be even higher if the gigs played on the same day were counted as different gigs).

I started learning music on a boarding school in the Finnish Armed Forces Band in the autumn of 1968 (age 15) in Dragsvik, Ekenäs, Finland. The following autumn I got to study in the Sibelius Academy’s military music department which collaborated with the Helsinki garrison band (Guard’s orchestra) on whose premises we lived in a boarding school. Later I continued my studies at the General Department of the Sibelius Academy and the Helsinki Conservatory.

I’ve taught information technology, especially multimedia, since the early 1990s as well as working as music technology teacher at the Helsinki Adult Education Center. In 1998-2000 I work as a computer engineer (multi-media) in Helsinki City Public Works Department and also made IT support work in many places, most of which are recording studios.

I have a small audio and video editing workshop called RioRoad Studio.