Finnish composer Juhani Nuorvala (b. 1961) studied composition with Eero Hämeenniemi at the Sibelius Academy (master's degree 1991). He also studied privately with Tristan Murail and spent the academic year 1993-94 on a Fulbright scholarship as a pupil of David Del Tredici at the City University of New York. A notable variety of influences - French "spectral" music, American minimalism, New Romanticism, popular music, techno - has been regarded as a special feature of Nuorvala's idiom. Despite this he is not a collage artist; instead he has blended various ingredients to create a mode of expression entirely his own.