Joona Toivanen Trio

Joona Toivanen – p Tapani Toivanen – b Olavi Louhivuori – dr Antti Heermann – violin

They started playing together as a trio in 1997. Since then the ambitious and young threesome has performed their modern jazz based compositions at the various Finnish jazz festivals. Concerts at Jazzkaar are their very first ones abroad.

Violinist Antti Heermann (b. 1966) dedicated himself completely to playing jazz after graduating as a violin teacher in 1992. He has performed at many of Finland’s jazz festivals in different contexts. In 1997 and in 1998 the Jazzrytmit magazine critics have voted him as The Jazz Violinist of the Year. «Heermann is a rarity in Finland,» wrote Jukka Hauru, jazz critic from Finnish biggest daily Helsingin Sanomat.

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The young threesome has performed their modern jazz based compositions at the various Finnish jazz festivals.

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