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Kari Kriikku (born 1960) is a Finnishclassicalclarinetist.

Concentrating on contemporary music, Kriikku has served as an interpreter of works for the clarinet by composers such as Olli Koskelin, Vinko Globokar, Kaija Saariaho, Jukka Tiensuu, Jouni Kaipainen, Kimmo Hakola, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Pawel Szymanski, Eero Hämeenniemi, Magnus Lindberg, Michel van der Aa, and Usko Meriläinen.

Early life

Kriikku was born near Seinäjoki, Finland into a musical family.

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His father was a trumpet player and a pianist; his mothers and sisters played the guitar and piano. Kriikku's first public performance was at a school end-of-term event, during which he and his father performed a piano four hands.^[1]

Kriikku left traditional school at age 16 to join the Helsinki Garrison Band, which required him to move into Army barracks.

He later studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He continued to study with clarinetists Alan Hacker in England, and Leon Russianoff and C