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HEIKKI
TUHKANEN
Heikki was practically predetermined to join the world of
music, being born and brought up in all-musician family.
First serious contact with music was under eye of one of
the most famous classical music teachers in Finland, Csaba
Szilway, playing cello when 5 years old. He got encouraged
to pick up the trombone at the age of 11 and joining big
band summercamp sprang up his interest in jazz.
In the spring of 1999 he formed a jazz band with friends
from Savonlinna Art High School, where he begun to study
following fall. During his high school years he started
composing as well as keeping himself busy by taking trombone
lessons, playing in various ensambles and regularly commuting
between Helsinki and Savonlinna. In 2001 he got accepted
into pop & jazz conservatory in Helsinki where he met
both Jussi Paavola and Janne
Toivonen, and established contacts with the group of diverse
musicians and various bands. Heikki gratuated from pop &
jazz conservatory in 2005 and went directly to the jazz-department
one of the most respected music universities in Europe,
Sibelius Academy.
Heikki was playing in big bands led by Bob Mintzer, Bill
Watrous and Peter Herbolzheimer. Since 18 years old, Heikki
was regularly invited to play with the most famous big band
in Finland, UMO. With years of professional experience under
his belt by age of 22, he seamlessly combines and indulges
in playing jazz, classical, pop, rock, blues, funk, disco,
electronic, hip-hop, gospel, folk, ska, reggae, salsa, other
Afro-Caribbean and African styles working with numerous
bands and orchestras, sometimes getting involved even in
musicals and varietee shows. Heikki's goal is to keep developing
his skills as an improviser, instrumentalist and as a composer
until he slides away.
During the last year, most of Heikki's time he has been
spent in studios working with different groups, playing
live gigs and arranging horns and strings. And off course,
working with the Finnish Horns.
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