Music

Matti Ruippo is a music teacher, a 1987 graduate of the Sibelius Academy. He has taught at Orivesi College from 1985 to 2001 and at Sibelius Academy since 1990. His main interests are music theory, Afro-American and Afro-Cuban music, and music technology. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies in the field of music distance learning.
Ruippo is a senior planning officer at Sibelius Academy where he develops and researches the use of information and communication technology in music education and pedagogy. He has papers in this field at international conferences in Berlin, Bergen, Bhopal, Bologna, Dublin, Edmonton, Helsinki, Jyväskylä and Turku.