Outi Tarkiainen

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 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.^[1]

List of works

Opera

• A Room of One's Own (2021)^[2]
• Upcoming project with librettist Aleksi Barrière^[3]

Orchestra

• Midnight Sun Variations (2019)^[4]
• Songs of the Ice (2019)
• The Ring of Fire and Love (2020)
• Mosaics (2021)
• Polar Pearls (2023)

Concertante

• Saivo (2016) for soprano saxophone and orchestra
• Milky Ways (2022) for Cor anglais and orchestra^[5]

Song cycles

• The Earth, Spring's Daughter (2015) - for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra
• The Lustful Mother (2018) for baritone, 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)