Kamus Quartet - Beyond Poems: Chamber Music of Outi Tarkiainen (2018)

Outi Tarkiainen is one of a new generation of composers whose work bears intense witness to the world around it and whose music engages audiences while advancing the art form without compromise. ‘I see music as a force of nature’, Outi has said, ‘that can flood over a person and even change entire destinies.’ Outi Tarkiainen was born in Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland, a place that has proved a constant source of inspiration for her. She studied composition at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with Eero Hämeenniemi and Veli-Matti Puumala, at the University of Miami with Ron Miller and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Malcolm Singer. Since 2017, her music has been published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen in Copenhagen which has represented the finest Nordic composers since the nineteenth century.