Tuomas Holopainen

Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen is a Finnish songwriter multiinstrumentalist musician screenwriter and record producer best known as the founder leader keyboardist and songwriter of symphonic metal band Nightwish He has also studied jazz and classical styles but prefers to be influenced by harmonic film music He has also played in the bands Nattvindens Gråt and Darkwoods My Betrothed His current side projects are the gothic metal band For My Pain and the band of Timo Rautiainen Holopainen has written several songs that have been included in movie soundtracks including recent collaboration with Nightwish bass player and male vocalist Marco Hietala on While Your Lips Are Still Red for the Finnish film Lieksa in 2007 He also cowrote Nightwishs own film Imaginaerum released in November 2012 Description above from the Wikipedia article Tuomas Holopainen licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia