Okko Kamu

Okko Tapani Kamu (born 7 March 1946, Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish orchestral conductor and violinist.

Primarily self-taught, he became principal guest conductor of the Royal Swedish Opera in 1969, the same year as he won the first Herbert von Karajan Conducting Competition in Berlin.

In April 2009, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra announced the appointment of Kamu as its next chief conductor, as of the autumn of 2011.

[4] In November 2012, the orchestra announced the extension of Kamu's contract through the end of July 2016,[5] at which time he concluded his tenure in Lahti.

Kamu's two discs of Berwald for Naxos both received the rare Diapason d'Or award.