As of 1 August 2022, Tuomo Huhdanpää, Master of Music, will take over from Annika Mustonen, Avant’s Executive Director, who is on family leave.
Huhdanpää, who has also played percussion in Avant himself, has for the past year been the artistic director of the Vivo Youth Symphony Orchestra. A familiar face from many art music festivals, he was also recently involved in Avant’s Suvisoitto.
“I’m looking forward to working at Avant and I’m particularly excited by the versatile nature of Avant and the fact that I get to work with some great top musicians,” said Huhdanpää.
As Acting Executive Director of Avant from 1.8.2022, Huhdanpää can be contacted by email at firstname.lastname(at)avantimusic.fi or 0505810409.
