Osmo Vänskä is a Finnish orchestra conductor. He started his musical career as an orchestral clarinettist with the Turku Philharmonic (1971-1976), and he later became the principal clarinet of the Helsinki Philharmonic from 1977 to 1982. He later started to study conducting with Jorma Panula at the Sibelius Academy, where his classmates included Esa-Pekka Salonen and Jukka-Pekka Saraste. In 1982, he won the Besançon Young Conductor's Competition. Wikipedia
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The indefatigable Robert von Bahr wanted to record all of Sibeliuss work - and the unrecorded orchestral pieces were given to the then totally unknown Lahti Symphony Orchestra (LSO) under Osmo Vnsk. virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID...
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