Hannu-Markus Tapio Norjanen is a conductor and has worked as the conductor of the Helsinki Cathedral Boy's Choir Cantores Minores

Cantores minores

Cantores Minores is a Helsinki Cathedral's Choir, and Finland's oldest and most successful boys' choir. President of Finland is choir's patron.The choir currently consists of about three hundred 4- to 25-year-old boys and young men...

 since 2005.(9 March 2011). Cantores Minores tuo Matteus-passion Loviisaan, Loviisan Sanomat, Retrieved July 12, 2011 He is also a part of the Cantores Minores head council. In the years 1990-1997 Norjanen has worked as the conductor of the Men's Choir Amici Cantus. In the years 1998-2001 he was the main conductor of the city orchestra of Lappeenranta. Norjanen graduated from Sibelius-Academy as an organist (1990), choir director (1992), and as a conductor in 1997. Norjanen has also been taught by Eric Ericson

Eric Ericson

, is a Swedish choral conductor and influential choral teacher. He graduated from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 1943 and went on to complete his studies abroad, at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland, and in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States.Renowned for his...

 and studied conducting in Sweden

Sweden

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Hannu Norjanen has also been as a teacher in the Sibelius-Academy, and has also conducted many operas, for example: Mozart's Magic Flute, Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, Puccini's La Bohème, Tosca, Verdi's La traviata and Falstaff.