Touko Lundell

Touko Lundell, who studied trumpet at the Tampere Conservatory, has been the principal trumpet of the Finnish National Opera Orchestra since 1985 and the Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra since 1986. He has also worked as a trumpet teacher at, among others, the Sibelius Academy and the Pirkanmaa University of Applied Sciences. He has played in many Finnish professional orchestras and performs as a soloist and chamber musician both in Finland and abroad. Lundell won the first international trumpet competition of the Lieksa Brass Week in 1999.