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The preselection round jury consists of Kati Hämäläinen, Kari Jussila, and Olli Porthan.
In the competition proper (first round and final round) the jury members are Marie-Claire Alain (France),
Edoardo Bellotti (Italy), Kari Jussila (Finland), Jacques van Oortmerssen (The Netherlands), Olli Porthan (Finland),
and David Sanger (Great Britain). Kati Hämäläinen will be chairing the jury.
The chair will not take part in judging. Members of the jury are not allowed to judge any of their own students. Their judging is private and final. Judging will follow a separate set of rules.
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Kati Hämäläinen studied the organ and the
harpsichord at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, during the years 1964-1972. She continued with her hapsichord studies in London,
and with Kenneth Gilbert. She has also
studied early French, Spanish and Italian organ
music in several master classes. She completed her Doctor of Arts in Music studies at the Sibelius Academy with French
harpsichord and organ music of the Baroque with
special mention "cum laude".
Hämäläinen has performed throughout Finland as
soloist, chamber musician, with orchestras, and as
conductor. She has also performed in Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, the former Czechoslovakia, the United Kingdom, Italy, and France. She has
recorded for radio and television companies in Finland and in Central Europe, and
for Finnish record companies.
Hämäläinen is also a researcher in early music
performange practice. As Senior Assistant she
tutors doctoral students at the Sibelius-Academy
in Helsinki.
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Jacques van
Oortmerssen began his musical studies at the Rotterdam
Conservatoire, studying the organ with André Verwoerd. He earned the
distinction ‘cum laude’ for his final examination and was given a
special prize for improvisation.
Between 1974 and 1976 he studied with Marie-Claire Alain in Paris,
and was awarded the Prix d´Excellence in 1976. In 1977 he received his degree as a piano soloist, and in the same year
he was awarded first prize at the Dutch National Improvisation
Competition.
Since 1979 he has been Professor of Organ at the Sweelinck
Conservatoire
in Amsterdam, where his organ class attracts students from many
different countries. In 1982 he succeeded Gustav Leonhardt as ‘Organiste Titulaire’ of the
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In addition to being a visiting professor at the University of Göteborg,
the Conservatoire of Lyon and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, he has
visited conservatories and universities worldwide as a guest teacher and
recitalist. For the academic year 1993/94 he became Betts Fellow in
Organ Studies at Oxford University.
As a recitalist he has appeared in many international festivals like the BBC
proms. His interpretations of Bach and early music
have brought him
widespread fame. He is also active as a comproser and organ consultant.The complete organ works of Brahms and
C.P.E. Bach (BIS) feature among
his many recordings for various international recording and broadcast
companies. In 1994 Jacques van Oortmerssen started recording the
complete organ works of J.S. Bach on the most important historical organs
in Europe (Challenge Records).
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Kari
Jussila studied organ at the Sibelius Academy
under Enzio Forsblom. In 1966 Jussila received his Organ
Diploma and also graduated as a church
musician. He has later enhanced
his studies in several masterclasses in Finland
and abroad and studied privately in Geneva under
Guy Bovet and in Paris under Marie-Claire Alain.
After his Debut of 1966 in Helsinki, he
has given recitals regularly in Finland and in the
other Nordic Countries as well as in several
European countries, Russia and U.S.A. He has
premiered over 40 organ and chamber music
compositions and made several first and other
recordings for the Finnish Radio as well as making
many organ and chamber music records. He received first
prize in the 1973 Helsinki national organ
competition.
Kari Jussila has taught organ at the
Sibelius Academy since 1966. In 1983 he received a
lectorate and since the autumn of 1998 he has been
the acting Professor of Organ music. Since 1972 he
has also taught organ at the post graduate
training courses for church musicians in Kuopio
and Järvenpää and since 1980 at the Parainen Organ
festival.
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Olli Porthan
studied organ at the Sibelius Academy under Enzio
Forsblom and under Jacques van Oortmerssen at the
Sweelinck Conservatoire in Amsterdam. After
receiving his diploma, he gave his debut recital at the Finlandia-hall in 1983. He received first
prize in the 1980 Lahti organ competition. Porthan
has given concerts in Finland and in the other
Nordic Countries as well as in several European
countries. He has made several radio recordings
and performed on television, in addition to
recording baroque organ works and chamber music.
Porthan has taught
organ music at the Sibelius Academy since 1980 and
as professor since 1988. He has acted as chairman
for the Organum Society during 1986-1990. Porthan´s expertise has been widely used in
various organ building projects (also the Kotka
organ). Since 1992 Porthan has been artistic leader of the ”Janakkalan barokkikesä”
music festival. He acted as leader of the
Sibelius Academy Church Music Department in 1997- 2002.
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