Outi Tarkiainen


Outi Tarkiainen is a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music. Tarkiainen grew up in Rovaniemi, the capital and commercial center of the Finnish Lapland region. She studied composition with Eero Hämeenniemi 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.
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List of works

Opera

A Room of One's Own

Orchestra

Midnight Sun Variations Songs of the Ice The Ring of Fire and Love Mosaics
  • ''Polar Pearls''

Concertante

Saivo for soprano saxophone and orchestraMilky Ways for Cor anglais and orchestra

Song cycles

The Earth, Spring's Daughter - for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestraThe Lustful Mother for baritone, piano, and string orchestra

Wind ensemble

  • ''Joye''

Chamber music

Beaivi Siimes There is more light in this room when you are here They Walked Side by Side The Lustful Mother's Heart Without a Trace Woodland Fanfares Tenderness
  • ''The Seasons of Love''