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.
List of works
Opera
A Room of One's Own (2021) Upcoming project with librettist Aleksi Barrière
Orchestra
Midnight Sun Variations (2019) 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
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)