Dead|The versatile professional and opera leader of the music was also the father of the music family.
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Composer and former Director General of the Finnish National Opera Ilkka Kuusisto has died at the age of 91.
Kuusisto was a composer, teacher and opera leader in the field of Finnish music.
He was a well -known musician: his father was a composer and his son violinists.
Composer Ilkka Kuusisto has died early Thursday morning. The matter tells about his son Pekka Kuusisto on a public Facebook update. Ilkka Kuusisto was 91 years old.
During his life, Ilkka Kuusisto played many roles in the field of Finnish music. Kuusisto had graduated from the Sibelius Academy as a cantor organ and music teacher, but in addition to his various teaching assignments, he was known primarily as a composer. His composition production includes numerous scients.
Spruce served as CEO of the Finnish National Opera from 1984 to 1992. In 1992, he was awarded the title of Professor and in 2007 the State Prize for Composition.
Ilkka Kuusisto’s father was composer Taneli Kuusisto and boys Pekka Kuusisto and in 2022 died Jaakko Kuusisto violinist. Daughter Lotta Kuusisto is an actor.
20.2. 2:17 pm: Added information from Lotta Kuusisto.
Ilkka Kuusisto at home in Helsinki in December 2011.
Pekka (left), Ilkka and Jaakko Kuusisto in 1993.
Ilkka Kuusisto congratulates his son Pekka for the victory of the Sibelius Violin Competition in 1995.
Paavo Suokko (left), Ilkka Kuusisto and Jorma Hynninen on the stairs of the Old Opera House or Alexander Theater in 1983.