Member in bands
TUOMAS SEPPÄLÄ IS CURRENT MEMBER IN
| Name | Instrument | Member from |
|---|---|---|
| Amberian Dawn | Guitars,Keyboards | 2006 - |
TUOMAS SEPPÄLÄ IS FORMER MEMBER IN
| Name | Instrument | Member from |
|---|---|---|
| Virtuocity | Guitars,Keyboards | - |
Biography
I'm the composer and the founder of Amberian Dawn. I don't make any lyrics because our vocalist Heidi has so much to offer in that field. My main instrument is guitar but in studio I also record keyboards with our main keyboard wizard Tom.
I started playing music at the age of 6 when I started playing classical piano in music school. I finished music school at the age of 15. At that moment I seriously considered playing piano as a profession. I had already started playing keyboards and composing my own songs. At the age of 16 I started playing guitar and the musical style was right away heavy metal. I took some guitar lessons but soon I realized that I didn't need a guitar teacher, so I'm very much a self-educated guitar player. Of course my training in classical piano helped me to acquire playing guitar.
My biggest musical influences are taken from following bands and players: Deep Purple, Rainbow, Blackmore's Night, ABBA, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Tony MacAlpine, Black Sabbath, Ronnie James Dio, Iron Maiden. My musical background is probably very typical for heavy metal musician. Nowadays I don't listen to music very much.
I've been working for example with following bands or musicians either on stage or in studio: Atheme One, Virtuocity (under pseudonym Michael Thomas), Twisted Silence,Hevein singer Juha Immonen and Nightbride. I've also played keyboards and guitar as a session musician in some various projects. My strangest musical project was playing drums at military orchestra for about a half of year.
