About
Ville's extensive career in music comes from his practical working experience as a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, and includes not only composing and producing music, but also performing all around Europe as a guitarist from clubs to large festivals, and he has approximately twenty years of experience in studio environment.
Ville started his professional career in music in 2006, when his band received a record deal from one of the largest record labels in Finland. Soon also publishers noticed Ville's talent in songwriting, and harnessed his talent on writing songs for other bands and artists. His ability to write especially emotional music was also noticed by advertisement industry as well, which led to his first paid orders of radio ads. Up to date, Ville has gained his vast experience in scoring, producing, arranging and orchestrating music for large amount of instances like TV- advertisements, theatre music, promotional videos, artists and bands, radio ads, game music, short film, live concerts and different sized live ensembles.
For the last few years Ville has been shifting more towards his lifelong dream to write music for film, and studying the technical aspects of creating film scores in modern way of film production. Immediately after the decision on focusing more for film music in the beginning of 2018, Ville participated to a renowned film music competition and since then he’s talent has put him twice among the top 20 finalists in Oticons Faculty International film music competition, and gained work on writing more music specifically on video orders. In the spring of 2021, Ville applied and was personally selected by Mr. Harry Gregson-Williams to be one of the participants in the main program of International Next Generation Composers Laboratory, which was held online March 2022 via video connection to mr. Gregson-Williams's studio. Ville and other selected composers around the world were personally mentored by Mr. Gregson-Williams himself, along with other industry top professional on the top level of the film music industry. At the end of the program and mentoring sessions of mr. Gregson-Williams, Ville and all of the composers in the program recorded their film music with a large symphony orchestra.
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During his career, Ville's music has reached chart positions, radio airplay and recognition both inside and outside of Finland, and he's also worked with many major record labels and about every style and genre of music you can imagine. Ville has also composed, arranged, orchestrated and played music with and for numerous professional purposes, including a brass ensemble of one of Finland’s most acclaimed symphony orchestras, Lahti Symphony Orchestra (and also performed with them in front of about 25 000 people). Ville is one of the main arrangers, orchestrators and conductor in one of the Finland's biggest private beneficiary concert series, called Kalajoen Joulutervehdys. Ville has mixed and produced releases for several Finnish and foreign bands and artists, so he is very accustomed to working in studio environments and using english as his professional language.
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Throughout the years, Ville has received great feedback on his skill of telling a story with music, from joyful and comedic bits to dramatic and powerful themes. Seasoned film music professionals, like the Jury of Oticons Faculty Int'l film music competition (Lalo Schifrin, Andy Hill, Nathan Barr, Gavin Greenaway, Joe Kraemer etc) have common opinion that Ville has a unique and astounding sense for dramatic and effective music, and that his skillset, style and taste are ready to play a role in a demanding film music industry. Harry Gregson-Williams also highlighted Ville's skill to write music that supports the film.
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"Already when I was just few years old, I can remember listening to the music that my parents listened to, and how it evoked a stream of emotions inside me that I had not felt before. Nowadays, as people are using digital media more than ever, demand for professional music for media is growing rapidly. Sound, especially music, can deliver something you are not able to tell with images, words or gestures. Sound and music can support every aspect of your story, whether it is an emotional scene on a film, fighting sequence in a video game, or a short promotional film with a powerful message. Music creates a special atmosphere, and can change visual course to a whole new direction. What I try to achieve with music is, that it tells a story that you can see with your eyes closed. I love to write big, recognizable and captivating themes, and share the emotions I personally feel with the music that I create." -Ville
"This is a truly wonderful epic composition, with the right balance of energy, virtuosity and melody."
-Jury of Oticons Faculty 2018
"Your sense of design and dramatic architecture is very strong. This is one of the scores that if one reads the scene on the script and then close their eyes and listen to this, they’ll find themselves at the end of the cue not been able to move from the chair. Emotionally, it is that strong, because all the key dramatic beats in this scene are underlined beautifully."
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- Jury of Oticons Faculty 2019