I was born March 14th 1976 in Rauma, Finland. As I was little, we had an old German piano, totally out of tune, lying around at home. I recall how great it was to play the keys and create all kinds of chords with it. That tells something about my way of composing; my greatest pleasure is simply improvising to get the idea of a composition.

My first instrument was guitar, and I took guitar lessons when I was eight. Later I took piano and music theory lessons at the local music school. At the ...