Mikko Franck

Conductor Mikko Franck was a prodigy, leading orchestras across Scandinavia and beyond by his early twenties. He has been active in both orchestral music and opera, with a large repertory in the latter field. Franck was born in Helsinki on April 1, 1979. He took up the violin at age five, entering the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in 1992 and going on for further violin studies in Sweden, Israel, and the U.S. In 1995, he was allowed to conduct a Haydn symphony in a concert by the Academy's orchestra and took to conducting immediately. His talents were spotted by the famed cond...