MIKKO PERKOLA

Mikko Perkola studied music at the Päijät-Häme Conservatory, at the Sibelius Academy and at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. His teachers were Arvo Haasma, Markku Luolajan-Mikkola and Wieland Kuijken. He has given concerts and recorded chamber music in Europe together with the Norwegian Baroque Orchestra, the Icelandic Chamber Orchestra, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Battalia, Retrover, Ensemble Severin, Wieland Kuijken, Laurence Dreyfus, Topi Lehtipuu, Hans-Ola Ericsson, Anna Lindal, Markku Luolajan-Mikkola and others. In 2005 Perkola appeared with the Gramophone Award-Winning viol quartet Phantasm, on their album with John Jenkins’s Consorts in Six Parts, followed by a five-part recording in 2006. He has also made many radio recordings.

Mikko Perkola is both a singer and composer in the Finnish group Tekijä Tuntematon, which interprets poems. His wide range in music-making includes collaborations with artists from different fields, from early music to multimedia and solo performances with amplified viol. He teaches the viola da gamba and early music in Lahti.

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