Career
Lives in Lempäälä, Finland. The Finnish copyright bureau TEOSTO has registered 308 compositions with Mr. Puranen appearing as a composer, lyricist and/or arranger.
At the moment the composer is very interested in creating some new classical and religious material.
Echoarelle, operation 5 - An impressionistic chamber music miniature composition for flute & harp. Adagio di Gianna, operation
6 - A romantic, small composition for string orchestra, flute, oboe & harp. Puro, operation 7 - A chamber music composition for flute & harp.
Sielunkumppani, operation 2 - A Viennese waltz for barytone singer and symphony orchestra.
Sapere Aude, operation 1 - A hymn for singer and organ
During the year 2007 Puranen has begun to compose more classical and religious music:
Herran kasvojen edessä, operation 3 - for vocalist and organ/piano
Future, here we come! op.4 - A wedding march for organ
these two are composed to be performed in churches during wedding ceremonies.
On the Trails of Saint Paul, operation
9 - A soundtrack composition for choir, string orchestra & tubular bells. Autuaaksijulistus, operation 10 - sekakuorolle SATB & uruille (Matthew 5:3)
in recording and music production in the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, in the beginning of the 1990s.
Orchestra conducting studies in Sibelius Academy, as a private student of maestro Jorma Panula.
Puranen"s debut concert as a classical music conductor took place 20 September 2006 in Kosice, Slovakia with the Slovak State Philharmonic.