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Sub-principal

Tomi Laitamäki

Tomi Laitamäki, born in 1978 in Kauhajoki, began studying double bass in 1989 at the Panula Institute in Kauhajoki under the guidance of Timo Turja. He was also taught by Paul Oja and Petri Välimäki. In 1999, he started his professional studies at the Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences in the music education program with Sari Savolainen as his teacher. From 2001 to 2002, Laitamäki participated in an Erasmus exchange program in Berlin at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler," where he was instructed by Angelika Starke, the principal double bassist of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Afterward, he continued his studies in Jyväskylä under Henri Dunderfeldt and graduated as a Musician with a Bachelor of Arts in 2004. That same year, he entered the shortened master's program at the Sibelius Academy under the guidance of Panu Pärssinen and graduated with a master's degree in music in the autumn of 2007.

Laitamäki began working as the assistant principal double bassist at the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra in January 2008. Before that, he served as the alternating principal double bassist at the Kymi Sinfonietta in the autumn of 2007. Laitamäki has also worked in other Finnish orchestras, including the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tapiola Sinfonietta, and the Finnish National Opera Orchestra.