EDUCATION

SIBELIUS - ACADEMY, Helsinki, Finland

• Global Music Master’s Degree- programme since 2010

  folk-harp and singing, composition studies with Eero Hämeenniemi

• Master of Music, spring 2006, Department of Music Education 1999-2006
  main instrument C - degree with piano, second instrument harp, third instrument voice

Particular composition studies with Eero Hämeeniemi 2008-2013 and Conservatorio Nacional de Estado de México, 2003 -04, Toluca

Conservatorio Nacional de Música, Mexico City, 2005-2007

• Composition and orchestral conduction studies

Particular studies of the Paraguayan harp, teacher Maestro Celso Duarte, and the Mexican jarocha-harp

University of Helsinki

• Dept. of Political Science, Practical Philosophy since 1998

SELECTED WORKS

Selection of concerts, electric & acoustic harp

• Helsinki International Harp Festival 2023, electric harp & voice, Baba Yaga solo, Music Centre

• Jouni Bäckström composition concert, Music Theatre Kapsäkki, Helsinki January 2023

• Milou album release concert, Culture Centre Caisa, Helsinki, October 2022

• Baba Yaga Solo @ Air We Share performance evening, Helsinki, May 2022

• Baba Yaga Solo @ Klassinen Hietsu, Helsinki, March 2022

• Helsinki International Harp Festival 2020, electric harp & voice, solo performance of own new compositions, Camerata, Music Centre

• Baltic Circle Festival 2019 opening concert, AI2Be3 - album release concert with Elina Pirinen & co, Kallio church

• Apulanta – rock band: concert hall Finland tour, March 2018

• Improvised avant-garde electric harp solo at the Apulanta – rock band gig in Helsinki Jäähalli, 2017

• Meidän Festivaali 2015, concert together with violinist Pekka Kuusiston kanssa, improvisation and compositions by Hakkola, electric harp & voice

• WeJazz – festival 2015, improvised concert in a tram with Jukka Perko, Sami Nummela,
  Eero Tikkanen ja Anni Elig Egecioglu

• WeJazz - festival 2013, “the Dark Concert”, improvised concert in total darkness with
  saxophonist Jukka Perko and trumpetist Verneri Pohjola

Performance art works / works that combine music & performance art

• Idols 2020 – Dayjob Collective's performance

  premiered at Mad House Helsinki, December 2020 + 2021

• 7- hour durational concert-performance-installation w. Ville Hyvönen, Kulturwerkstatt Kircheib, Germany, September 2021

• Figures (2019), dy Salmun Deer & Tim Page, site-specific work for three performers, objects & electronics,
  Performensk -festival, Minsk, Belarusia

• An Die Kunst (2018), a commision for chamber choir Ahjo Ensemble. Choir piece where choir moves with the audience in the same space. Bruno Machine Shop, October 2018

• Persephone Variations (In a Shopping Mall) (2018), Dayjob Collective's site-specific work at
  Tampere Biennale 2018, Tullintori Mall

• Procession (2017), a solo performance with a violinist and music stands. At the Dayjob Collective's event Kesäduuni (Summer Job), Vapaan taiteen tila, Helsinki

• Celadonian Compositions (2017), for a performer, electric harp and objects, at Merihaka parking space, Lapsody 2017 International Performance Art Festival, Helsinki

• Openings (2016) for saxophone, violoncello and harp

• Materializations (2016), durational solo performance with industrial material, Nicosia, Cypros

• Reconnaissance (2015), by Salmun Deer & Tim Page, a site-specific work for two performers and objects, commissioned by chamber ensemble Uusinta

• Wear Me, I'm Open (2015), by Salmun Deer & Tim Page, for two performers, two harps and objects, Reflektor Berlin-Kaunas Performance Art Festival in Kaunas, Lithuania

• Harppuralli (Harp Rally) (2013), performance with a harp and a car, realized with the locals at
  Viitasaari Time of Music- festival, Peter Ablinger’s workshop final presentation

Selected first performances, concert music

• An Die Kunst (2018), a commision for chamber choir Ahjo Ensemble. Choir piece where choir moves with the audience in the same space. Bruno Machine Shop, October 2018

• Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra: Angry Birds Space Theme for Symphony Orchestra, Children's orchestra and Children's choir, 2016, Angry Birds Space Theme 2014, Tiny Thief Fantasy 2014

• Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra in Seattle: Angry Birds Space Theme for Symphony Orchestra, 2012

• Avanti!: Porvoo Summer Sounds 2011 - My Short Moment – a mini concerto for a double bass and chamber orchestra

• Kampin Laulu: 20th anniversary concert 2010, a choir piece Mistä ei voi puhua, mutta ei voi vaietakaan

Selected cross-artistic collaborations

• Ocean Ecstatic - contemporary theatre piece at Yrjönkatu swimming hall, electric harp & performer as a part of a working group, Helsinki Biennale 2021

• Angel (2016), Elina Pirinen solo dance work with the renaissance choir Lumen Valo, as harpist

• Baltic Circle Festival: Ruumiinvalvojaiset (2015), at the Ossi Koskelainen & Co
  contemporary theatre work, as harpist

• La-Bás – biennal 2012, interdisciplinary work based on James Joyce’s Ulysses with poet Leevi Lehto, Kiasma, Helsinki

• Kiasma modern art museum, Helsinki

• Sarastus, Pyhäjärvi Full Moon Dance Festival 2011, at Tiina Huczkowskin solo dance work, as harpist

• Musica Nova 2011, Little Red Riding Hood, a collective composition piece with Ears Open – association, composition and harp

Game music, a selection

• Clash of Clans (2022- ), Friends & Dragons (Playsome 2022), Merge Mansion (Metacore 2021), Merge Gardens soundtrack (Futureplay 2020), Angry Birds Match soundtrack (Rovio 2017), Angry Birds Blast soundtrack (Rovio 2017), Angry Birds Holiday soundtrack (Rovio 2016) Angry Birds Space Theme (Rovio 2012), Tiny Thief soundtrack (Rovio 2013) Angry Birds 2 theme song (Rovio 2015), the Fruit Nibblers soundtrack (Rovio 2015), Angry Birds Peace Song (Rovio 2012)

Selection of theatre and film music

• The Show (1927), Music for Silent Film, Loviisan Sibeliuspäivät, October 2023

• The Angry Birds Movie (2016), the Mighty Eagle Song, the Mighty Red Song

• Brawlidays Seasons Greetings Animation, Supercell Brawlstars (2018)

• Santamental Me, Musical Short, Rovio Entertainment (2014)

• Ode to Snow, Musical Short, Rovio Entertainment (2013)

• The Snow Song, Seasons Trailer, Rovio Entertainment (2017)

• Trailers & teasers for Rovio productions 2011-2018

• Angry Birds Toons, several episodes between 2011-2018

• Forssa Silent Film Festival Aug 2016, live music for Der Golem (1915) w. Milla Viljamaa, ensemble leader, composer, harpist

• Forssa Silent Film Festival Aug 2015, live music for D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation,
  5 musicians ensemble leader, composer, harpist

• Archipelago Science Fiction (2012), a short film by Tellervo and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen

• Hannu ja Kerttu (2011), Puppet theatre Hevosenkenkä

• Saapasjalkakissa (2010), Puppet theatre Hevosenkenkä

• Sirius Express (2010), an animation by Mariko Härkönen ja Ismo Virtanen

• Musica Nova Festival 2009, Kiasma, Out of the Cradle endlessly rocking (2009) Music for excerpt of
  Tuulia Susiaho’s short movie,

Selection of recordings

• Milou Band: Je m’aime (2022)

• Aili Ikonen: Helposti palavaa (2023)

• Timo Alakotila & Hannu Kella: Mingled Years (2019)

• Löytölapset: Homo Ludens (2013), debut album composition, lyrics, arrangements, production, harp & voice

• Yona & Orchestra Moving Clouds: Naivi (2015), harp, arrangement

• Yona & Orchestra Moving Clouds: Vaikka tekee kipeää, ei haittaa (2013), harp, arrangement

Latest grants

• 2022: TaiKe, 12 000€ artist working grant

• 2020: Kone Foundation, Home residence - program, 7200 €, for making new music for the electric harp, effects pedals & voice

• 2020: Samuel Huber Foundation, 2500 € Dayjob – collective's project “Idols 2020”

• 2019: Wihuri Foundation, 9000 € Dayjob – collective's project “Idols 2020”

• 2018: Wihuri Foundation, 12 000 € artist working grant, combining music, sound & performance art

• 2018: TaiKe, 3000 € for Ahjo Ensembles commission

• 2017: TaiKe, 6000 € for the artistic work of the collective Dayjob, which combines music and performance art,

• 2013: MES, 800 € for producing Löytölapset Homo Ludens – album,

Awards

the Fruit Nibblers, Game Music Award 2016 – the best soundtrack in a mobile / video game: composition, arrangement, production for five live musicians and a symphony orchestra

Composition concerts

• Lost & Found - Nov 2011, Kanneltalo, Helsinki

• Helmet ON! Little Insanities, Nov 2007, Kanneltalo, Helsinki

• Que cuentas güerita – What Tales You Tell, Fair Girl? Sibelius - Academy concert series Apr 2005, Helsinki

Selected solo concerts, folk harp & voice,
Latin American and Finnish folk music arrangements

• Espoo International Harp Symposium 2010, guest artist, October 2010

• Jyväskylä University Campus Concert Series, November 2009

• Idaho International Folk Dance and Music Festival, July 2009, Idaho, USA

• Ketchum Art Festival July 2009, Idaho, USA

• Haapavesi Folk – festival June 2009, Haapavesi

• Grand-sali May 2009, Porvoo

• Pyhä Henrik’s Chapel May 2009, Turku

• Art Goes Kapakka – festival August 2008, Helsinki

• Haapavesi Folk – festival 2008, Haapavesi

• Habanera Gris and other spices, theatre Takomo May 2008, Helsinki