{"id":11,"date":"2016-04-20T13:17:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T18:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/niemisto\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2016-11-27T12:22:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T18:22:04","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/niemisto\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_section_regular et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_1_2 et_pb_column et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_image et_pb_image_0 et_animated et-waypoint\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/852\/2016\/04\/Niemisto-conducting-cropped-e1480270636541.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_1_2 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Paul Niemisto<\/h1>\n<div class=\"et_pb_text et_pb_module et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_text_align_left  et_pb_text_1\">\n<p>Dr. Paul Niemisto recently retired from St Olaf College Music Department as Professor Emeritus. He joined St. Olaf in 1978, as conductor of the Norseman Band and instructor of low brass instruments. Originally from Northern Michigan he taught for a few years in the public schools in Atlantic Canada before coming to Minnesota. He graduated from the University of Michigan and then received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>In 1979 he founded the Cannon Valley Regional Symphony Orchestra, which he still conducts. In 1990 he founded Boys of America (Ameriikan poijat) a Finnish style brass septet made of American musicians, which has toured internationally. He regularly performs on as a conductor, on trombone, euphonium, and tuba.<\/p>\n<p>Niemisto has been interested in the history of Finnish wind music for many years. The unique brass history of Finland fueled his research, a Fulbright Grant in 1999, and a doctoral degree. He has been back in recently to continue research in Finland and St Petersburg, Russia, on an American Scandinavian Foundation Grant. For this work, he is the recipient of the Finnish Military Music Cross. In 2013 he published a book on his research: <i>\u201cCornets and Pickaxes: Finnish Brass Bands on the Iron Range.\u201d <\/i>In spring 2017 he will travel to Finland for a second Fulbright teaching and research grant at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_2  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_1  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>In summer 2006 he spearheaded the now Internationally known Historic Wind Music Conference and the Vintage Band Music Festival, held in Northfield, Minnesota. This event took place again in 2010, 2013, and 2016. \u00a0It is scheduled again for 2019.<\/p>\n<p>During his many visits to Finland (in summers and winters) he has been a teacher of many wind players, wind band conductors, and has been a part of the renaissance of Finnish brass band music. He is also a member of the Great Western Rocky Mountain Brass Band in Silverton, Colorado, and a frequent player with the Sheldon Theatre Brass Band (Minnesota), and the Rochester Symphony Orchestra (Minnesota). Paul was awarded the \u201cLiving Treasure in the Arts\u201d award by the Northfield City Council in 2013. He will be a Fulbright scholar in Finland for the spring of 2017, and will lead Ameriikan Poijat in a Finnish tour in July 2017 to help celebrate Finland\u2019s centennial.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1539,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/niemisto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/niemisto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/niemisto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/niemisto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/niemisto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/niemisto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/niemisto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/niemisto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}