Olli Paavo Antero Kortekangas (born 16 May 1955) is a

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composer. Kortekangas was born in

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. His early career in music began at Espoon Musiikkiopisto (Espoo Music Institute) and the youth choir Candomino. He then studied at the

Sibelius Academy The Sibelius Academy ( fi, Taideyliopiston Sibelius-Akatemia, sv, Sibelius-Akademin vid Konstuniversitetet) is part of the University of the Arts Helsinki and a university-level music school which operates in Helsinki and Kuopio, Finland. It als ...

as a pupil of

Eero Hämeenniemi Eero Olavi Hämeenniemi (born 29 April 1951 in Valkeakoski) is a Finnish composer, musician and writer. He is an adjunct professor at the University of the Arts Helsinki and he has played and recorded solo improvisation concerts. Hämeenniemi ha ...

and

Einojuhani Rautavaara Einojuhani Rautavaara (; 9 October 1928 – 27 July 2016) was a Finnish composer of classical music. Among the most notable Finnish composers since Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), Rautavaara wrote a List of compositions by Einojuhani Rautavaara, gre ...

from 1974 to 1981, and completed his studies in West Berlin with

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from 1981 to 1982. Later he has held teaching positions at the Sibelius Academy and the National Theater Academy. He was Composer-in-Residence at Oulu Sinfonia from 1997 to 2007. He has composed about 140 works covering a broad range, from choral works and instrumental miniatures to orchestral music and operas. He has received commissions from ten countries. Among his recent large-scale works are Seven Songs for Planet Earth, commissioned by the

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and the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, and Migrations for mezzo-soprano, male voice chorus and orchestra, commissioned by The

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and recorded by

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. Kortekangas is particularly known for his choral music and operas, of which the latest are Messenius and Lucia (2004), ''

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'' (2007), ''

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'' (2011) and ''Own Fault'' (2015). The latest opera is Veljeni vartija (My Brother's Keeper) to be premiered in February 2018 by the Tampere Opera. Kortekangas's work list also includes a number of chamber as well as instrumental solo works, particularly for organ. Kortekangas has received a number of awards and recognitions, among them the Salzburg Opera Prize, the Special Prize of the Prix Italia Competition, and the prestigious Teosto Prize.

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