Anssi Tikanmäki

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Anssi Tikanmäki was born in 1955, into a farming family of five children at Haapajärvi in Finland. While at school, he took piano lessons and, inspired by the rock bands of the sixties, practised the guitar. During his last few years at school he played in dance and rock bands, touring the open-air summer dance pavilions of Northern Finland. Entering the Sibelius Academy in 1974, Tikanmäki qualified as a music teacher six years later. While at the Academy, he got caught up in the folk music revival and training launched by Martti Pokela and attended courses at the Oulunkylä Pop/Jazz Conservatory directed by Klaus Järvinen. In 1977, with fellow students Reijo Karvonen and Esa-Markku Juutilainen, Tikanmäki formed the Ikaros ensemble. Also playing in the band were Peter Lerche and Upi Sorvali. Ikaros represented Finland at the Intervision Song Contest at Sopot in 1978. Towards the end of the 1970s, Tikanmäki composed the orchestral suite "Finnish Landscapes" (Maisemakuvia Suomesta). This was premiered in November 1980 at a concert by Ikaros and the Sibelius Academy Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jorma Panula. "Landscapes" was also recorded for television and released on disc in 1981. Around the beginning of the 1980s Tikanmäki was a freelance composer and musician in ensembles with such artists as Hector, Arto Sotavalta and Taiska, and in Young Lovers. During that decade he arranged music for recording by Veikko Lavi, Harri Saksala and others and was the keyboards player, a

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Maisemakuvia Suomesta / Finnish Landscapes

Films - Musiikkia Mika Kaurismäen ohjaamiin elokuviin

Maisemakuvia Suomesta

Vanhat Valokuvat / Old Photographs

Juha (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Pizza Á La Anssi Tikanmäki

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Jukebox - Music in the Films of Aki Kaurismäki

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Jukebox-Music In The Films Of Aki Kaurismäki (Disc 2)

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Jukebox-Music In The Films Of Aki Kaurismäki (Disc 1)

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Lontoon skidit - 144 Johanna-singleä vuosilta 1979-1984

Vanhat valokuvat

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