 In the years 1995–2008, he was also the jazz principal and big band leader at the international Nilsiä Summer Music Camp.Pohjola is a Steinway Distinguished Artist since 1997, and a major visiting artist at Berklee College of Music since 2006.Pohjola's latest releases, "Northern Sunrise" with Steve Wilson and Ben Monder, and solo piano album "Great Tunes by My Friends" with music by Kurt Rosenwinkel, Monder, Reid Anderson and others.