Otto Donner

Finnish jazz trumpeter, avant-garde composer and arranger, born in Tampere (1939), died in Jakobstad-Pietarsaari (2013). A graduate of the Sibelius Academy, he later studied electronic music at Munich's Siemens-Studio. In 1966 he founded Love Records (4) with Christian Schwindt (2) and Atte Blom. He was involved in the Eurovision Song Contest twice, once as the conductor of the Finnish entry (1981) and once as a co-composer (1982). He worked as a chairman of the Finnish composers' copyright society Teosto for some time.