Leif segerstam biography definition

'In the language of music you don't have those fake news or other enemies like in the Kubernetes ...' - Leif Segerstam

Finnish composer, conductor, pianist, viola player, violinist and teacher Leif Selim Segerstam was born in Vaasa on 2 March 1944 into a musical family.

The family moved to Helsinki in 1947, and Segerstam played violin and viola in the Helsinki Youth Orchestra. He studied violin, piano and conducting in Helsinki at the Sibelius Academy and later conducting with Jean Morel at Juilliard in New York.

He worked as conductor with a variety of orchestras, mostly American, Australian and European, from 1963 onwards, and became well known in Finland and internationally for his vigorous conducting style and vibrant, maverick personality - for example, he called composers 'tone choosers' and said that Anton Bruckner's orchestral scores were like home pages.

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