Juha Pikkarainen

Juha is a trained actor who started his vocal studies in his late thirtieth. He did his Master of Art at the University of Tampere Department of Performing Arts in 1993. He has been involved in the Tampere Theater, St. Michel`s Theater, Kajaani City Theater and the Finnish National Opera. As a freelance he has done dozens of interesting roles forexample in Savonlinna Opera Festival, Ilmajoki Music Festival, Oulu Opera, Tampere Opera, Kotka Opera and Aino Ackte`s Music Festival in Helsinki. Juha's most important vocal instructors have been Raimo Laukka, who had an international career as a baritone, especcially Verdi's roles, Juha Uusitalo, who has been singing principal roles all over the world Including the New York Metropolitan Opera, Vienna Staatsoper and Milan`s La Scala and Jukka