CV
EDUCATION
2023-2020 MM in Composition, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki
2022 MMus Erasmus in Composition, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
2020-2017 BM in Composition, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki
Teachers have included Veli-Matti Puumala, Tapio Tuomela, Matthew Whittall (SibA), Linda Buckley, Stuart Macrae & Colin Broom (RCS).
2016-2013 Graduate from Savonlinna Upper Secondary School of Arts and Music
MASTERCLASSES
2022
Curating & Diversity (Sounds Now Stipendiate)
Du Yun, Vigdís Jakobsdottir, Toks Dada, Julia Gerlach, Time of Music, Viitasaari
2022
Sävellyspaja, Porvoo
Jukka Tiensuu, Tomi Räisänen & Avanti!
2021
Kalevi Aho & K!art Ensemble, Uuden Musiikin Lokakuu, Oulu
Darmstädter Ferienkurse: Malin Bång, Jennifer Walshe, Lars Petter Hagen, Brigitta Muntendorf, Sarah Nemtsov
2020
Chaya Czernowin, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki
2019
Riikka Talvitie & Tapio Lappalainen, Uuden Musiikin Lokakuu, Oulu
POSITIONS OF TRUST & MEMBERSHIPS
ongoing-2022 Member of composition pedagogy working group, Finnish Composers' Society
ongoing-2021 PAUHU-festival
Festival Leader & Artistic Director
ongoing-2021 UNM Finland (Suomen UNM ry)
Secretary 2023-2024
Chairperson 2021-2023
ongoing-2018 Korvat auki society (Korvat auki ry)
Board member 2023-2024
Chairperson 2022-2023
Vice-chair 2021-2022
Secretary 2018-2020
2021 Membership of the Finnish Composers society
WORK EXPERIENCE
ongoing-2023 Composition teacher, East Helsinki Music Institute
ongoing-2022 Coordinator for the NYKY Ensemble of Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts, Helsinki
ongoing-2018
- Several temporary posts teaching composition, music theory, solfege and music history
- Work as a freelance music engraver and private tutor in composition, music theory and piano
2021-2020 Teaching composition at the "Kuule, minä sävellän!" project
2020-2019
- Producer of the orchestra concert at the Ung Nordisk Musik 2020 Tampere festival together with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra and Tampere Orchestra Academy
- Participating as a composition pedagogue in ”Yhdenvertaisesti säveltäen” (Composing equally) -initiative by the ArtsEqual of the Sibelius-Academy of the University of Arts, Department of Composition and Music Theory, Music Finland and the Finnish Composers Society
GRANTS
2024
Arts Promotion Centre Finland working grant (6 months)
2023
Sibelius Academy Foundation
Madetoja Foundation commissioning grant
2022
Teosto commissioning grant
PNB Paribas Bank Scholarship
Arts Promotion Centre Finland working grant (6 months)
Paulo Foundation
2021
Wegelius Foundation scholarship
MES Foundation working grant (1 month)
Sibelius Academy Foundation (grant for working group)
Arts Promotion Centre Finland working grant (5 months)
Greta & William Lehtinen Foundation
2020
Sibelius Academy Foundation
Alfred Kordelin Foundation, for organising "Kontakt!" composition concert
2019
Teosto commissioning grant
The Sibelius Fund of the Society of Finnish Composers, commissioning grant