Esko Laine

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Esko Laine (b. 1961 in Helsinki) is a professor of music at Hans Eisler Musikhochschule in Berlin. He was the first Finnish musician to obtain a post at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He has won several international prizes such as Isle of Man^{[citation needed]}, Markneukirchen and the ARD International Music Competition^{[citation needed]}.

He studied at Music Institute of Hyvinkää. When he was eighteen years old, he obtained a post at the Finland National Opera Orchestra, and he left it to study with Günter Klaus and Franco Petracchi.

Laine plays a double bass made by Giuseppe Rocca in 1839.