Sanna Salminen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSalminen works as an assistant professor in Music Pedagogy under the Department of Education at the University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4. She graduated with a master\u2019s degree from the University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 in 2000. Her main subject was Music Education and during her studies she specialized in conducting and multicultural music. She has performed and led various instrumental and vocal groups, for example medieval and renaissance music, Thai music, Arabic music, Klezmer music, Finnish folk music, classical music and pop music.<\/p>\n
Salminen was the voice trainer and assistant conductor of Musica Chamber Choir and Vox Aurea Children\u2019s Choir from 1998 to 2006. She also started and conducted Ruamjai youth choir from 2000 to 2009. Sanna Salminen has worked as a researcher and a teacher in a co-operation project with the Department of Music in South Africa since 2000. Her licentiate thesis from the field was completed in 2004. Salminen\u2019s main instruments are the viola, the violin and the medieval fiddle. She has worked as a researcher and a teacher in developmental co-operation projects in South Africa, and is also known for making school music books, arrangements and compositions. Salminen started conducting the choir in 2009. She brought new things, for example a lot of multicultural influences, to the repertoire of the choir. Salminen has also worked as the conductor of Ruamjai Youth Choir, which she founded in 2001 from older singers of the Vox Aurea Choir. Ruamjai Choir was selected the Youth Choir of 2009 by the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyway, the best job in the world is conducting a youth choir: young people are able to sing anything if you don\u2019t tell them that it\u2019s difficult,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
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