Sasha Mäkilä
Sasha Mäkilä (born 1973) is a Finnish conductor. He studied musicology at the University of Helsinki, cello at the Helsinki Conservatory and conducting with Leonid Korchmar at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory of St. Petersburg, Russia, and with Leif Segerstam in the Sibelius Academy, Finland.
Sasha Mäkilä is the conductor of the The Russian National Library Symphony Orchestra in St Petersburg, Russia, and he also guest conducts other regional orchestras in Finland and on music festivals throughout northern Europe. He made his 2004 opera debut with the Helsinki Conservatory and later became the first in Finland to conduct operatic works of Philip Glass with Helsinki Skaala Opera.
In 2006 he won 3rd prize in the 6th "Vakhtang Jordania" International Conducting Competition. Since 2007 Sasha Mäkilä is an assistant conductor at the Orchestre National de France.