Pasi Pirinen

Pasi Pirinen studied at the junior department of the Sibelius Academy and 1988-92 at the Guildhall School under John Miller. He has further studied in the USA with Michael Sachs and Charles Schlueter and in Paris with Antoine Curé. Pirinen started his orchestral career in 1992 in Argentina as Principal Trumpeter of the Orchestra of San Luis and the Córdoba Symphony. He freelanced in London from 1994 before taking up his position of Principal Trumpet in the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Helsinki in 1995. Since 2005 Pirinen has been the principal trumpet of Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. He also holds the position of Principal Trumpet with the Avanti! ensemble and is a member of the Finnish Brass Symphony and of the Nordic Brass Ensemble. In 1998 Pirinen won 1st Prize in an international trumpet competition in the USA.
In addition to performing the core traditional repertoire he has been active in the contemporary music scene by commissioning and giving first performances of several new works for solo trumpet.

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