Anssi Tikanmäki

Anssi Tikanmäki was born in 1955, into a farming family of five children at Haapajärvi in Finland. While at school, he took piano lessons and, inspired by the rock bands of the sixties, practised the guitar. During his last few years at school he played in dance and rock bands, touring the open-air summer dance pavilions of Northern Finland. Entering the Sibelius Academy in 1974, Tikanmäki qualified as a music teacher six years later. While at the Academy