Verneri Pohjola

Juho Verneri Pohjola (born 23 December 1977 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish jazz trumpeter and composer.

From 1999 he studied jazz music at the Sibelius Academy, where he met pianist Tuomo Prättälä, bassist Antti Lötjönen, and drummer Olavi Louhivuori, members of his Ilmiliekki Quartet in 2002.

With his brother Ilmari, he played with his father Pekka Pohjola for the first time on his album Views (2001) .

The sidemen for this seven tracks comprising CD and vinyl disc release at Edition Records have been: Antti Lötjönen bass, Mika Kallio drums, Miikka Paatelainen pedal steel guitar, Tuomo Prättälä piano and electronics and Pauli Lyytinen soprano and tenor saxophone.

[3] On Pohjola's initiative, Kaija Saariaho composed her last work, the Trumpet Concerto Hush, and he premièred it in 2023 with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.