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Birth name | Kari Antero Turunen |
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Joensuu, ![]() |
5 September 1962
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Years active | Ca 1990–present |
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Kari Antero Turunen (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈkɑri ˈturunen]), DMus, born 1962, is a Finnish choral conductor, ensemble tenor, and music lecturer and scholar.
Turunen was born on 5 September 1962 in Joensuu in Eastern Finland. He spent part of his childhood in Australia.
In his youth, Turunen used to play the double bass.
Turunen attended the programme in orchestral and choral conducting at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, studying choral conducting with Professor Matti Hyökki . He received his Diploma in choral conducting in 1998, and graduated as Master of Music in 2000. In his thesis, Turunen analyzes the oratorio Jephtha by Handel. Turunen also attended the University of Helsinki.
Around this time, Turunen also studied with or took part in master classes with musicians such as Stefan Sköld, Anders Eby , Eric Ericson, Oren Brown, and the Hilliard Ensemble.
Turunen later returned to academia, receiving his Doctor of Music degree in 2014 at the Sibelius Academy's DocMus Doctoral School, by then part of the University of the Arts Helsinki, with a dissertation on performance practice and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, titled Performing Palestrina: From historical evidence to twenty-first century performance. As part of his doctoral degree, Turunen formed and directed the Ensemble Petraloysio, an all-male ensemble comprising vocalists, an organist, and various other instrumentalists as needed, performing sacred works by Palestrina.