Finnish Conductor and Composer Leif Segerstam died

The last conductor and composer Leif Segerstam, Chief Conductor of the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestras (RSO Wien) from 1975 to 1982, passed away at the age of 80 on October 9 in Helsinki. There are many stories about the best leading actors of Finnish music. As a composer there are over 300 symphonies including numerous orchestra, chamber music and vocal music pieces. As a chef you work at the Orchestra in Helsinki and Turku.

Born on March 2, 1944 in Vaasa, Finland. Seine musikalische Ausbildung is another of the Sibelius-Akademie Helsinki, where Violine, Klavier, Komposition and Conductiers study. If the abschlusser goes to New York and the Juilliard School of Music. First engagements include the opera houses of Helsinki and Stockholm, guest appearances at the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Mailänder Scala, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London and the Salzburg Festival.

Neben de RSO Wien leitete is etwa the Helsinki Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Danische Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and the Philharmonic Orchestra in Helsinki and Turku. From 1997 to 2013 he worked at the Sibelius Academy Helsinki as professor of conducting.

Angelika Möser, the expert leader of the RSO, presented herself on behalf of the orchestras “in grateful memory” by composers and former RSO chefs.