Tero Lindberg

Tero Lindberg (b. 1976) was 16 when he entered the Porvoo Region Music Institute to study the trumpet with Reijo Ruokonen. He was already playing keyboards in many different line-ups and when a certain soul band was looking around for a trumpet to supplement its sax player, he decided to try his hand at a new instrument. He soon realised that the trumpet was his instrument, and at the age of 20 was accepted for the dance musician programme at the Helsinki Pop/Jazz Conservatory as a pupil of Raimo Korhonen and Markku Renko. In 1997 he did his compulsory military service as a member of the Conscript Band in Lahti. Two years later, he got accepted for the degree programme in pop/jazz teaching at the Helsinki University of Applied Sciences and received his degree in 2005. His teachers at the time were Timo Paasonen, Mikko Pettinen and Tero Saarti. Tero spent 2001 as an exchange student at the Kunstuniversität Graz in Austria, where his teachers included Stefan Hofer, Stjepko Gut and Edvard Holthaner. He then practised and freelanced in Vienna from 2004 to 2007, after which he returned to Finland and has been kept extremely busy playing the trumpet and doing arrangements for numerous recordings and tours by leading Finnish artists and many TV programmes.

Tero has worked as a part-time teacher at the Sibelius Academy Jazz department and Junior Academy in 2014-2015 and 2016-2018, and at the Pop & Jazz Conservatory for the spring semester of 2019. At the Turku Conservatory and Institue of Music, Tero taught trumpet from 2011-2016 and wind band conducting from 2011-2017. In recent years Tero has coached orchestras at the Imatra Big Band Camp and Lieksa Brass Week, as well as been a regular assistant conductor with the Turku Jazz Orchestra since 2012. In addition to these regular jobs, he has given numerous private lessons, held clinics and coached many big bands in Finland.

The Tijuana GT is an orchestra composed of Lindberg's super-musicians, transporting listeners to the hits of Herb Alpert, which enchanted the world in the 60s. Read more: The Tijuana GT