![]() At the time of writing, Tarkiainen is working on an opera for an opera house in central Europe. Spending time in major European cities has resulted in new contacts, and now her phone is ringing, so to speak, more than ever. I got in touch and proposed a project, and to my amazement the orchestras responded favourably.” “I looked at a map and started thinking where I could find orchestras in northern Finland, Sweden and Norway that might be willing to commission and premiere music by me. The earliest performances of Tarkiainen’s orchestral works happened thanks to her own active efforts. Up there in the north, we constantly interact with Sweden and Norway, and there are ships that can take you to Scotland.” “Growing up in Lapland taught me that the world is international by default. Internationalisation was a no-brainer for her. Her music has been performed by the BBC Philharmonic and by various orchestras in Canada, Detroit, Houston and the Nordic countries. Outi Tarkiainen is rooted in Lapland but is on a firmly upward international career trajectory. Today, a dozen or so composers in Finland make a living by commissions alone. There are also several wealthy private cultural foundations in Finland that provide support both for general living expenses of creative artists and for individual arts projects. This is possible thanks to a reform enacted more than 50 years ago, whereby government grants (guaranteeing a modest livelihood) may be given to artists in various branches of the arts for periods of several years. Tarkiainen has been able to live on grants, as have many of her Finnish colleagues. Anywhere else in the world, it seems to be much harder to even get your music performed.” Tarkiainen describes Finland as “a paradise for composers”, noting that “Finland has excellent educational opportunities, many orchestras and potential for obtaining financial support for one’s work. Whenever I return to the peace and quiet of Lapland, my musical thoughts begin to fall into place.” “Dividing my time between very small communities and very large ones is my way of analysing the world and perhaps also analysing my career as a composer. “But spending some time in large cities like Paris, Berlin and London and then returning to the silence of Lapland with a head full of ideas has certainly influenced the content of my music, as opposed to if I had just stayed put in Finland. “My studio is always pretty much the same, even though it has existed in multiple cities,” says Tarkiainen. ![]() One writer described Tarkiainen’s composer profile as ‘glocal’, referring to how dextrously Tarkiainen moves between the tiny villages of her native Lapland and the fiords of the Arctic Ocean on the one hand and the metropolises of the world on the other. “I set myself one goal: I would focus on composing and nothing else, and I would write only the music that I really wanted to write,” she says. In 2012, Tarkiainen decided to become a full-time composer. She holds a Master of Music degree from the Department of Jazz at the Sibelius Academy, with composition as her main subject, and her further studies include one year in Miami. 1985) is Tytti Arola’s senior by five years and has been building an international career as a composer through a more traditional route, specifically in orchestral music. My music has been performed in the Nordic countries and elsewhere in Europe, and as a musician I’ve had opportunities to perform at multi-discipline arts festivals in Estonia and Norway.” I’ve already embarked on international cooperation. Arola feels that “multiple professional identities facilitate flexibility, which feels not only meaningful but also sensible”.Īrola says: “A multi-discipline approach will hopefully open up several pathways where being a composer is only part of the big picture. She is a good example of the potential of combining the identities of a musician and a music educator with the identity of a composer. Musical experience can be much more than just sound.”Īrola has created music with powerful multi-sensory elements, such as scent compositions. “I want to make contemporary music accessible,” says Arola. I like to blur the roles of performer, composer and audience.” I enjoy bringing daily life to concert venues and exhibition spaces. I like to create instruments from the real sounds of the world. ![]() She writes: “I am interested in music as a multisensory phenomenon. 1990), based in Helsinki, describes herself on her website as a sound artist/composer and musician.
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