John Nelson
John Nelson has sung with the Sibelius Academy Chamber Choir, as well as other major choirs in both Finland and England. Between 1995 and 2007, he assisted the Mikkeli Music Festival (Artistic Director, Valery Gergiev) and was Intendant from 2001-2007. He continues to assist a number of international musicians, including the Georgian National Opera. In 2006, he gained his BA (Hons) in Opera Studies and was awarded a PhD from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Helsinki in 2013. His thesis...See more
John Nelson has sung with the Sibelius Academy Chamber Choir, as well as other major choirs in both Finland and England. Between 1995 and 2007, he assisted the Mikkeli Music Festival (Artistic Director, Valery Gergiev) and was Intendant from 2001-2007. He continues to assist a number of international musicians, including the Georgian National Opera. In 2006, he gained his BA (Hons) in Opera Studies and was awarded a PhD from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Helsinki in 2013. His thesis was entitled "The significance of Rimsky-Korsakov in the development of a Russian national identity". Since then, he has served as an External Postdoctoral Researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, Finland. He has a research interest in the interaction between the arts and the socio-political aspects of national identity. See less
