# Outi Tarkiainen (1985)

> Outi Tarkiainen, composer – 2 recordings on Ondine. Outi Tarkiainen studied composition with Eero Hämeenniemi and Veli-Matti Puumala at the Sibelius Academy…

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- **Role:** Composer
- **Dates:** 1985

## Biography

Outi Tarkiainen studied composition with Eero Hämeenniemi and Veli-Matti Puumala at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki (completing her diploma in 2010), and went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music in London and at the University of Miami. Being a composer with a glocal profile, she has worked in metropolises such as Paris, London and Berlin and equally well along the fiords of the Arctic Ocean and in tiny Lapland villages. In 2015, she was the composer-in-residence at the Musique Classique d’Uzerche festival in France. Tarkiainen was the artistic director of the Silence Festival in Lapland from 2014 to 2018, and in 2019 she was awarded the Lapland Art Prize for her merits as a composer of national and international repute. Her works have been performed at several prominent music festivals and by many distinguished orchestras such as the BBC Philharmonic, the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Canada, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Tarkiainen’s publisher is Edition Wilhelm Hansen.

## Discography on Ondine (2)

- [Outi Tarkiainen: Midnight Sun Variations · Songs of the Ice · Milky Ways · The Ring of Fire and Love](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1432-2.md): Nicholas Daniel, cor anglais · Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra · Nicholas Collon, conductor (ODE 1432-2, 2024)
- [Outi Tarkiainen: The Earth, Spring's Daughter · Saivo, Concerto for Soprano Saxophone, Effects and Orchestra](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1353-2.md): Virpi Räisänen, mezzo-soprano · Jukka Perko, soprano saxophone · Lapland Chamber Orchestra · John Storgårds, conductor (ODE 1353-2, 2020)