Mäkilä has also actively championed modern Finnish music, notably Kalevi Aho and Jukka Tiensuu.
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Sasha Aleksi Mäkilä (born June 19, 1973) is a Finnish conductor and currently Music Director of the St. Michel Strings.
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In April 2012 Sasha Mäkilä was appointed Music Director of St. Michel Strings chamber orchestra in Mikkeli, Finland.
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Sasha Mäkilä, born in Kerava, Finland, first studied cello at the Helsinki Conservatory before starting his conducting studies with Leonid Korchmar at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory of St. Petersburg, Russia.
After being without a permanent conductor for more than 15 years the orchestra in April 2012 appointed Sasha Mäkilä their new Music Director.
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