Pohjalaisten Osakuntien Laulajat

Pohjalaisten Osakuntien Laulajat, POL, is a Finnish mixed choir that continues a long tradition of choral singing at the University of Helsinki, Finland. It first began as an all-male choir in the 1920’s but got its present form in 1963. The Finnish name of the choir means roughly “The choir of The Osthrobothnian Students’ Association at The University of Helsinki”. The singers are mostly students coming from western and northern provinces of Finland. Nowadays POL has some forty members and is conducted by Julia Lainema.