The Artistic Director of Lieksa Brass Week
The Chair of the Jury of the 6th International Lieksa Brass Week Trumpet Competition

Swiss Nicolas Indermühle's musical journey began with the baritone horn, but at the age of 14 he switched to the tuba.

Nadja Hanhilahti started playing the trombone at the age of 11 at the Lahti Conservatory and continued her studies at the Sibelius Academy, graduating with a Master of Music degree in 2015.

American horn player Denise Tryon has played in several American symphony orchestras and taught horn at various educational institutions before her current professorship at Indiana University.

Avital Handler has been the principal tuba voice of the Israel Opera Symphony Orchestra since 2001.

Selina Ott won the Opus Klassik Award in 2021 for her debut album Trumpet Concertos and was the first woman to win the first prize in the trumpet category at the ARD International Music Competition in 2018.

Harri Lidsle has worked as a musician with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra since 1990. In addition to orchestral concerts, his career as a musician includes a considerable number of other concerts, with children's concerts being perhaps the most precious form of performance.

Touko Lundell, who studied trumpet at Tampere Conservatory, has been the principal trumpet of the Finnish National Opera Orchestra since 1985 and of the Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra since 1986.

Tanja Nisonen is a multi-role French horn artist. She is a member of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, teacher in charge at Brass Academy, teacher of French horn at the Turku Music Academy…

Teemu Salmi, born in Pori, earned his degree in music pedagogy from Lahti University of Applied Sciences in 2007 and graduated from the trombone class of the Sibelius Academy in 2016.

Tomi Nietula has worked as a trumpet teacher at Lahti Music Institute since 1997. Born in Nivala, he studied in Jokilaakso Music Academy and later, via the Maliskylä brass band and the Oulainen wind orchestra, in Päijät-Häme Conservatory in Lahti, where he graduated as a trumpet teacher in 1999.

Anna-Leena Lumme, originally from Oulu, started playing the trumpet at the age of 10 and has had a heart for wind music since she was young. In high school, she became interested in conducting, and continued studies all the way to the Sibelius Academy, where she graduated with honors in the wind conducting class in 2013.

Music educator Marja Ikonen is currently the principal of the Mikkeli Music Institute. Before that, she worked in Rantasalmi as a conductor and music designer teacher at Järvi-Saimaa Community College, conducting the Rantasalmi wind orchestra, Rantasalmi Youth Theatre's musicals, as well as the orchestra's parades.

Ayane Matsuura was born in Tokushima, Japan. She met Professor Erik T. Tawaststjerna at a master class while studying at the Tokyo College of Music, from which Matsuura graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in the spring of 2011.

Composer, pianist and conductor Tuomas Turriago (b.1979) is known especially as an experienced chamber musician and chamber music composer. His work as a musician is characterised by his great versatility and love of music, which encompasses almost all genres. 

Dr. Brian L. Bowman enjoys a distinguished career as a soloist, clinician, recording artist, educator and administrator. A Regents Professor of Music Emeritus in the College of Music at The University of North Texas, Professor Bowman organized and conducted the Brass Band of the University of North Texas.

Finland-based euphonium-trombone player Mizuho Kojima grew up in Tokyo, and moved to Finland to study with Jukka Myllys at the Sibelius Academy. Alongside her performing career, she is a dedicated educator, teaching at the Käpylä Music Institute and North Helsinki Music Institute, where she shares her knowledge and inspires the next generation of brass musicians.

The U.S. Army Brass Quintet is one of the most respected military music ensembles in its home country.

Muse Trombone Quartet is a trombone quartet formed by four Japanese-born women who now live in Europe.