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Panu Aaltio
ComposerBorn January 29, 1982 (44 years)
Panu Aaltio (born January 29, 1982) is a Finnish film composer. He was educated at the Sibelius Academy and University of Southern California and established himself as a film composer with The Home of Dark Butterflies (2008). He has received the International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for a Documentary three times, for Tale of a Forest (2012), Tale of a Lake (2016) and Tale of the Sleeping Giants (2021).
Panu Aaltio was born in Nurmijärvi on 29 January 1982. Wanting to become a film composer, he studied music technology at the Sibelius Academy in Finland, attended the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program at the University of Southern California and worked as an intern on film and television productions in Los Angeles. After returning to Finland, he became established there as a composer for feature films, television series and video games. The first feature film he composed a score for was The Home of Dark Butterflies (2008), for which he was nominated for the Jussi Award for Best Music.
Aaltio composed the music for a trilogy of nature films produced by MRP Matila Röhr Productions, Tale of a Forest (2012), Tale of a Lake (2016) and Tale of the Sleeping Giants (2021). For both Tale of a Forest and Tale of a Lake he received the International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for a Documentary. Tale of a Lake also received the Jussi Award for Best Music.
Panu Aaltio was born in Nurmijärvi on 29 January 1982. Wanting to become a film composer, he studied music technology at the Sibelius Academy in Finland, attended the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program at the University of Southern California and worked as an intern on film and television productions in Los Angeles. After returning to Finland, he became established there as a composer for feature films, television series and video games. The first feature film he composed a score for was The Home of Dark Butterflies (2008), for which he was nominated for the Jussi Award for Best Music.
Aaltio composed the music for a trilogy of nature films produced by MRP Matila Röhr Productions, Tale of a Forest (2012), Tale of a Lake (2016) and Tale of the Sleeping Giants (2021). For both Tale of a Forest and Tale of a Lake he received the International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for a Documentary. Tale of a Lake also received the Jussi Award for Best Music.
Panu Aaltio Filmography
| 2025 | Super Furball and the Lying Squirrel · as Original Music Composer |
| 2025 | The Creeps · as Composer |
| 2025 | Little Siberia · as Original Music Composer |
| 2023 | Codename: Annika (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2023 | Rangers of the Lost Ring · as Original Music Composer |
| 2022 | 5000 Blankets · as Composer |
| 2022 | Super Furball Saves the Future · as Original Music Composer |
| 2022 | The Twin · as Original Music Composer |
| 2022 | |
| 2021 | Tale of the Sleeping Giants · as Music Producer |
| 2021 | Finders of the Lost Yacht · as Original Music Composer |
| 2020 | The Potato Venture · as Original Music Composer |
| 2020 | Peacemaker (2020) (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2020 | At Home (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2020 | Ladies of Steel · as Original Music Composer |
| 2019 | Shadow Lines (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | Kolmannessa polvessa · as Composer |
| 2018 | Super Furball · as Original Music Composer |
| 2017 | 95 · as Original Music Composer |
| 2017 | The Eternal Road · as Composer |
| 2017 | |
| 2016 | Heroes of the Baltic Sea (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2016 | Rölli and the Secret of All Time · as Original Music Composer |
| 2016 | An Autobiography · as Composer |
| 2016 | Lake Bodom · as Original Music Composer |
| 2016 | Tale of a Lake · as Original Music Composer |
| 2015 | |
| 2014 | The Island of Secrets · as Original Music Composer |
| 2014 | Moomins on the Riviera · as Composer |
| 2014 | |
| 2013 | Curse of the Dragon Slayer · as Original Music Composer |
| 2013 | Fatima · as Composer |
| 2012 | |
| 2012 | Tale of a Forest · as Original Music Composer |
| 2012 | Mothers · as Composer |
| 2011 | Body of Water · as Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | Dawn of the Dragonslayer · as Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | Orcs! · as Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | Hella W · as Original Music Composer |
| 2008 | Inner Trial · as Composer |
| 2008 | Sauna · as Original Music Composer |
| 2008 | The Home of Dark Butterflies · as Original Music Composer |
| 2005 | Diili (TV Series) · as Composer |