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Erkki Pohjanheimo has worked for a considerable time as an Executive Producer, Producer, Director and Head of Light Entertainment at YLE TV1. In 1997 he left YLE and founded his own Production Company Sunny Notes Oy. He has also taught extensively in various audio-visual institutions.
International stars
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Erkki Pohjanheimo has produced and directed numerous international artists' concerts and TV shows, such as: Benny Goodman, Sarah Vaughan, Lena Horne, Lionel Hampton, Spencer Davis Group, Mikis Theodorakis, Cilla Black, Natalie Cole, Jose Carreras, Montserrat Caballe, King's Singers, Vanessa Mae and Johnny Logan, to mention a few.
In 1995, Erkki Pohjanheimo designed and produced three sizeable TV shows for TVRI, Indonesian TV in Jakarta, covering The Indonesia International Song Festival.
Documentaries
In Sunny Notes Oy Erkki Pohjanheimo has produced and directed documentaries for YLE TV 1, like Lasten Sairaala (Children's Hospital), A Life in a Trailer (Elämä asuntovaunussa), A Man with 100 Dogs (Sadan koiran mies), Under the Lucky Stars (Onnellisten tähtien alla), Against the Wind Mills (Tuulimyllyjä päin) and Jewels from Curly Birch and Great Sallow (Visaa ja raitaa koruiksi). In June 2001 he also directed the first Merikanto Song Contest from Mäntyharju Church for MTV3, Finland (Owl).
Celebration concerts
In 2004 Erkki Pohjanheimo produced and directed the celebration concerts of Singer Eino Grön and Composer Kaj Chydenius for YLE TV2. A Celebration concert of KOM Theatre was on the air in 2007 on YLE TV2.
Onstage: KOM Theater 35 Years 2007
(recorded 2006). Photo Kari Hulkko.
Operas
In 2009 Erkki Pohjanheimo produced and directed an opera of President Risto Ryti named Prisoner of Freedom (Vapauden vanki) by Ilkka Kuusisto for the Finnish Chamber Opera. The recording has been released on a sales DVD in March 2009.
DVD distribution: www.fuga.fi/?yleishaku=Vapauden+vanki
Latest opera recording is A Woman Like Frozen Champagne (Nainen kuin jäätynyt samppanja) by Ilkka Kuusisto. The opera tells a story of a Finnish writer Aino Kallas.
DVD distribution: www.fuga.fi/?sivu=detail&id=6419369093129
A Woman Like Frozen Champagne,
Opera by Ilkka Kuusisto, a sales video 2011.
Photo Finnish Chamber Opera.
Pohjanheimo's largest productions were two folklore operas, The Horse Escaped (Karannut hevonen) and Charcoal of St Petersburg (Pietarin miilu) Both operas took place in the 70's. Seppo Seppälä worked as a Co-Producer/Director. Both operas were based on The Ancient Songs of the Finnish People (Suomen kansan vanhat runot). The Horse Escaped was composed by Heikki Valpola and the libretto was written by Sulevi Peltola. Charcoal of St Petersburg was composed by Toni Edelmann and libretto written by Ilpo Tiihonen.
Education
In 2001-2002 and 2005-2008 Erkki Pohjanheimo ran a six month Course for Multi-camera Directors, in Adulta aRTO (Adulta Radio and Television Institute). In the years 2003 – 2011 he ran two weeks Multi-camera Music Directing Course twice a year in Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia
(Later: Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences/ Film and TV).
Erkki Pohjanheimo, performing and recording artist
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1960 Pohjanheimo participated in The Championship Contest of Pop Music Singing of Finland in Helsinki and finished second. That was the beginning of his career as a recording artist. Singing and studying the violin were a strong foundation for his later career as a Television Journalist an Director. |
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Erkki Pohjanheimo's recording career began in the 1960s. He sang his first record for Musiikki-Fazer in 1961 (Fontana, Philips, Decca). Later, Musiikki-Fazer's sound record production was named Finnlevy, and Pohjanheimo made records there. He sang his last album in 1967 for Musiikkitalo Westerlund (Parlophone). 1963 Jorma Weneskoski hired Erkki Pohjanheimo as the soloist of his dance orchestra and in 1965 he Pohjanheimo founded his own band. Pohjanheimo became a freelance singer in 1969. |
1963 YLE TV1 Lauantailekkeri-Show
1967 Mary in the Morning - Kaunein aamuisin
2016 Old Foxes Society - Little Christmas Party
Pauliina May and Erkki Pohjanheimo
2017 Alkmaar Finland 100-years -gala
