Mika Pohjola
is a Finnish-born jazz pianist and composer, who resides in Stockholm, Sweden. He was based in New York for seventeen years, 1995-2012. He is also one of the most prolific Scandinavian jazz musicians in his generation, and a distinguished piano artist on the Steinway & Sons roster.
Pohjola was born in Helsinki, Finland, and grew up in the neighboring city of Vantaa. He received his formal education in a Steiner school, where his first instrument was violin. He then studied drums, and in 1979 piano and basic music theory with his father, Heikki Pohjola (1938-2020), who was a notable Finnish...
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