ANTTI MURTO
Sound designer
 Antti "Ana" Murto has had an illustrious career working on the most varied of musical assignments, both classical and light. When he was ten, he began both as a singer in the Cantores Minores boys' choir and a piano pupil at the Helsinki Conservatory. He later continued his studies at the Oulunkylä Pop/Jazz Conserva-toire and with courses in electronic music at the Sibelius Academy. He has been a member of various ensembles, has played in countless recordings, also as a studio musician, and has composed for various line-ups, TV productions and many corporate occasions. His main job has nevertheless been sound design and mixing, studio recording and music producing.
Antti Murto was in charge of the sound for the premiere production of Einojuhani Rautavaara's opera Thomas at the Joensuu Festival and later the Finnish National Opera, for which he also did the sound for Paavo Heininen's The Damask Drum, Jukka Linkola's Elina, Tapio Tuomela's The Ear's Tale, Verdi's Otello, Kaija Saariaho' ballet Maa and the FNO production The Lake of the Little Swans. For the Savonlinna Opera Festival he designed the sound for Heininen's opera The Knife, and for the Helsinki City Theatre for Eero Hämeenniemi's ballet Leonardo. He has had two sound-design assignments for Vaasa Opera and has been sound master for a number of music festivals, including 17 summers at Pori Jazz. In addition he has been involved as a studio recorder, mixer or producer in dozens of sound and film productions by John Adams, Leif Segerstam, Jukka Linkola, Aki Kaurismäki, Taavi Kassila, the Leningrad Cowboys, Kari Väänänen, Eppu Normaali, the Trio Töykeät and others and been responsible for the sound reproduction at numerous corporate and other events and for the sound design of buildings.
In his capacity of sound designer Antti Murto has been on countless tours with, for example, the Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Ensemble (Helsinki, Berlin, Stockholm, Roskilde, Dallas, European tour), the Peter Sellars/Esa-Pekka Salonen production of Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale (Palermo, Rome, Madrid, Paris, Vienna), Bon Jovi (Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin) and the Loiri-Perko-Pyysalo line-up. He has been the sound master for all the gala concerts by Karita Mattila and for the numerous appearances by the Trio Töykeät in Finland and other parts of Europe. The organisers of many mass events have also come to rely on him: the Finnish rock championships, the main event marking the 75th anniversary of independent Finland, the international Syke 100 event in Finland, the opening of the European Championships in Athletics at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, the opening of the Hartwall Arena, the Viva Crucis Easter pageant in Helsinki, and the premiere of the opera Paavo the Great at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.
Many of the Finnish orchestras have also engaged the services of Antti Murto. He has handled almost all the special events of the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and collaborated with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and the Joensuu and Lappeenranta City Orchestras.
With the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra Antti Murto has worked on gala productions starring Karita Mattila and Montserrat Caballé, and the 2004 performance of Verdi's Requiem by the Suomen Joutsen. Our next collaboration will be the concert of arias by Karita Mattila at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki in October of this year.
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