Antti Rissanen

Antti Rissanen divides his time working as a trombonist, as a conductor and as an educator. As a trombonist he has won numerous different prizes and held the position number 1 Finnish jazz trombone player by the critics poll at the Finnish Jazz Rytmit Maganize for several years since 2002. He has studied in Berlin with Prof. Jiggs Whigham and at the New School University in USA with Conrad Herwig. He graduated from the jazz department of Sibelius-Academy in 2001 and finished his doctorate in 2015. As a conductor-arranger he annually freelances a great number of concerts of different kinds with big bands and Symphony Orchestras. In 2010 he started as a chief quest conductor for the Moscow based “George Garanian” big band. From 2009 he has been an artistic director of The Great Helsinki Swing big Band. As an educator he works primary as the head for wind instruments at Pop/jazz of Metropolia, University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki and also teaches at the Sibelius Academy.