Outi Tarkiainen (b. February 7, 1985) is a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music. Tarkiainen grew up in Rovaniemi, the capital and commercial center of the Finnish

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region. She studied composition with

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and Veli-Matti Puumala at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, with Ron Miller at the University of Miami, and with Malcolm Singer at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

List of works

Opera

* ''A Room of One's Own'' (2021) * Upcoming project with librettist Aleksi Barrière

Orchestra

* '' Midnight Sun Variations'' (2019) * ''Songs of the Ice'' (2019) * '' The Ring of Fire and Love'' (2020) * ''Mosaics'' (2021) * ''Polar Pearls'' (2023)

Concertante

* ''Saivo'' (2016) for

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and orchestra * '' Milky Ways'' (2022) for

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and orchestra

Song cycles

* ''The Earth, Spring's Daughter'' (2015) - for

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and chamber orchestra * ''The Lustful Mother'' (2018) for

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, piano, and string orchestra

Wind ensemble

* ''Joye'' (2017)

Chamber music

* ''Beaivi'' (2016) * ''Siimes'' (2017) * ''There is more light in this room when you are here'' (2018) * ''They Walked Side by Side'' (2018) * ''The Lustful Mother's Heart'' (2020) * ''Without a Trace'' (2020) * ''Woodland Fanfares'' (2021) * ''Tenderness'' (2022) * ''The Seasons of Love'' (2023)

References

External links

Official website
Living people 1985 births 21st-century Finnish composers Finnish women classical composers People from Rovaniemi Sibelius Academy alumni {{Finland-composer-stub