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Panu Aaltio at SoundTrack_Cologne's Composing for Film Day
Panu Aaltio joins the Composing for Film Day at SoundTrack_Cologne on July 16, presenting his HARPA-winning Little Siberia score alongside his former USC teacher Christopher Young.
Read 13.04.2026 This Is Not An Ad released Panu Aaltio's electronic score for This Is Not An Ad, a short film by Dustin Brown for Last Chance for Animals, is out now alongside the film's release. 17.02.2026 Panu Aaltio Wins the 2026 HARPA Nordic Film Music Award Panu Aaltio has won the HARPA Nordic Film Music Award for his score to Little Siberia, presented at the Nordic Film Music Days during the Berlin Film Festival. 17.02.2026 IFMCA Nomination for Super Furball and the Lying Squirrel Panu Aaltio is nominated for Best Original Score for an Action/Adventure Film at the 22nd IFMCA Awards for his score to Super Furball and the Lying Squirrel. 14.01.2025 Tale of the Sleeping Giants in concert Tapiola Sinfonietta and Tuuletar, conducted by Erkki Lasonpalo, performed the Tale of the Sleeping Giants score live to picture at a twice sold-out Finlandia Hall. 22.02.2024 Rangers of the Lost Ring nominated for an IFMCA Award Panu Aaltio's score to Rangers of the Lost Ring is nominated for Best Original Score for an Action/Adventure Film at the IFMCA Awards. 18.02.2024 Codename: Annika available for listening Excerpts from the score to SkyShowtime thriller series Codename: Annika, featuring vocalist Johanna Kurkela with a string quartet and gritty synthesizers, are online. 11.12.2022 Discussion with the director of 5000 Blankets, Amin Matalqa At director Amin Matalqa ’s home, Panu and Amin discussed the score that Panu composed for 5000 Blankets. 15.10.2022 Super Furball Saves the Future released Super Furball Saves the Future was released to Finnish theaters on October 14, 2022, and the score album played by the 97-piece Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra is out now on MovieScore Media. 15.12.2021 Tale of the Sleeping Giants released On December 3rd, 2021 the third film in the award-winning Finnish nature film series, Tale of the Sleeping Giants, was released in cinemas. The soundtrack album is out now on TIDAL, Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon. 24.01.2019 Super Furball nominated for Best Music at the Jussi Awards This is the third consecutive nomination for Panu, and the fourth in total. 13.04.2018 95 album released, featured on The Annotator podcast The digital download for the soundtrack album from the film 95 has been released. 15.03.2018 Super Furball album released The score album for the popular Finnish family adventure, Super Furball (Supermarsu), has been released by MovieScore Media. 03.02.2018 95: Audio clips available Audio clips from the score to the drama and sports film 95 are now available. 30.10.2017 Tale of a Lake and Tale of a Forest in concert In two weeks, on November 11th, 2017, Tale of Lake and Tale of a Forest will be performed live at the Espoo Metro Arena. 25.03.2017 Jussi Award for Best Music Tale of a Lake has won for Best Music at the 2017 Jussi Awards. This was the second nomination for Panu since being nominated for The Home of Dark Butterflies, and the first time winning the award. 08.03.2017 Tale of a Lake wins the IFMCA Award! Tale of a Lake has been chosen as the Best Original Score for a Documentary at the 2016 IFMCA Awards. 09.02.2017 Tale of a Lake nominated for an IFMCA Award Tale of a Lake has been nominated for the Best Original Score for a Documentary award at the IFMCA Awards. 20.01.2017 Best Music nomination at the Jussi Awards Tale of a Lake was nominated for Best Music at the 2017 Jussi Awards. The winner will be announced on March 24th, 2017. 21.09.2016 Rolli and the Secret of All Time in theaters Rolli and the Secret of All Time opened in Finnish theaters last weekend with 129 copies and 23,064 viewers, which made it the weekend's most watched Finnish film. 21.08.2016 Bodom opens in theaters The Finnish horror film Bodom, inspired by the true events at Lake Bodom in the 60s, opened in Finnish theaters this weekend. 07.03.2016 Tale of a Lake: the most watched documentary & making-of Tale of a Lake has now reached 131 745 viewers in theaters, making it the most popular Finnish documentary ever. A making-of video has been released, which also contains footage of the scoring sessions. 19.02.2016 Teaser: Rölli ja kaikkien aikojen salaisuus A teaser has been released for the next film in one of Finland's most popular franchises, Rölli. 02.02.2016 Guest on Finland's public radio (in Finnish) Panu appeared as a guest on Kultakuume (Gold Rush) on Yle Radio 1 (Finnish Broadcasting Company). 31.01.2016 Tale of a Lake: Soundtrack album CD pre-order The CD version of the soundtrack album for Tale of a Lake is now available for pre-order from Screen Archives Entertainment with the orders due to ship February 12th. 29.01.2016 Tale of a Lake: Soundtrack album released We're please to announce the release of the soundtrack album for Tale of a Lake. It is available now for digital download, with a CD release coming February 12th. 18.01.2016 Tale of a Lake: Great reviews and opening weekend Tale of a Lake was the third most watched film in Finnish theaters on its opening weekend, topped only by The Hateful Eight and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. 10.12.2015 Tale of a Lake premiere Panu has just finished scoring the feature length nature documentary Tale of a Lake (Järven tarina), which will start playing in Finnish theaters on January 15, 2016.
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