Johanna Juhola has studied accordion in the folk music department of the Sibelius Academy since 1997. She loves tango nuevo and other passionate music genres and especially their fusions, as well as combining music with other kinds of performing arts. Juhola has composed music for several dance, theater and circus performances for the Swedish Theater in Helsinki, for Zodiak - the center for new dance, for Circus group Circo Aereo, for Theater of Keski-Uusimaa, and for many project-based working groups.Juhola has been an influential member of bands such as Troka, Duo Milla Viljamaa & Johanna Juhola, Las Chicas del Tango, Spontaani Vire and Novjaro. Her latest ensembles include a duo with pianist Timo Alakotila, and Kraft, a duo with violinist Pekka Kuusisto. With Tuomas Norvio, a virtuoso of electronic music, Juhola has experimented with combining accordion with electronics, making music for contemporary dance, for fashion shows and television fiction. She has also visited the world of art music as a soloist for Timo Alakotila’s concerto for free bass accordion and a chamber orchestra, performed with different ensembles. Reactor Orchestra that performs Johanna’s compositions was founded in the spring of 2006.Johanna Juhola won the International Astor Piazzolla Competition in 2000 with Novjaro Quintet and the International "Citta di Castelfidardo" award, Astor Piazzolla music section as Duo Milla Viljamaa & Johanna Juhola in 2002.The spring of 2006 saw the release of "Miette", Johanna..s debut solo album. All the music on the CD was written by her and performed in collaboration with a group of versatile musicians. Other releases with Johanna Juhola include her 2003 duo CD with Milla Viljamaa titled "Piazzolla Passage", the Keystone Cops album "Just the glow" from 2006 and the 3rd Troka album "Raharinki" from that same year
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