The University of the Arts Helsinki ( fi, Taideyliopisto, sv, Konstuniversitetet), also known as Uniarts Helsinki, is a Finnish arts university that was launched in the beginning of 2013. Apart from a few exceptions, it is the only university in Finland that provides education in the fields it represents.
The University of the Arts Helsinki is located mainly in Helsinki, but it also has operations in Kuopio (department of church music) and Seinäjoki at the University Consortium of Seinäjoki (department of popular and folk music).
The university comprises three academies that were formerly independent universities: The Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki (until 2013
Finnish Academy of Fine Arts), the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki (until 2013
Sibelius Academy
The Sibelius Academy ( fi, Taideyliopiston Sibelius-Akatemia, sv, Sibelius-Akademin vid Konstuniversitetet) is part of the University of the Arts Helsinki and a university-level music school which operates in Helsinki and Kuopio, Finland. It ...
) and the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki (until 2013
Helsinki Theatre Academy
The Theatre Academy ( fi, Teatterikorkeakoulu, sv, Teaterhögskolan) is one of the three academies of the University of the Arts Helsinki and offers education in theatre and dance. It is Finland's largest education provider in its field and, wit ...
). The total number of students is 1946 (as of 2019).
According to the university, the goal of the merger is to strengthen the education, research and artistic activity within the field of arts in the university sector on a national and international scale. Another objective is to provide more opportunities to influence society through art.
The rector of the University of the Arts Helsinki is Kaarlo Hildén. Lauri Väkevä and Jaana Erkkilä-Hill are the vice-rectors and Heikki Lehtonen is the chair of the university board.
Admissions
The University of the Arts Helsinki offers over 30 degree programmes in the fields of music, fine arts, theatre and dance. The programmes lead to a Bachelor's, Master's or doctoral degree.
Education and research
The university provides the highest level of education in the arts in Finland, also engaging in artistic activities and research. In addition to bachelor's, master's and doctoral studies, the university offers open and continuing education services. University of the Arts Helsinki's Sibelius Academy also offers junior academy studies.
Degrees
At the University of the Arts Helsinki, students can complete Bachelor's, Master's and doctoral degrees in the fields of fine arts, music, theatre and dance.
Degree programmes
Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki (fine arts)
* Study Programme in
Printmaking
Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand processed techniqu ...
* Study Programme in
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and a ...
* Study Programme in
Sculpture
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable ...
* Study Programme in Time and Space Arts (
moving image
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...
,
site and situation specific art,
photography
Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is emplo ...
)
* Praxis Master's Programme
* Doctoral Programme
Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki (music)
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Arts Management
The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both hi ...
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Church Music
Church music is Christian music written for performance in church, or any musical setting of ecclesiastical liturgy, or music set to words expressing propositions of a sacred nature, such as a hymn.
History
Early Christian music
The ...
* Classical Music Performance,
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a ree ...
* Classical Music Performance,
early music
Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750). Originating in Europe, early music is a broad musical era for the beginning of Western classi ...
* Classical Music Performance,
forte piano
* Classical Music Performance,
guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected string ...
* Classical Music Performance,
kantele
A kantele () or kannel () is a traditional Finnish and Karelian plucked string instrument (chordophone) belonging to the south east Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery along with Estonian kannel, Latvian kokles, Lithuania ...
* Classical Music Performance,
orchestral instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. A person who pl ...
s
* Classical Music Performance,
organ
Organ may refer to:
Biology
* Organ (biology), a part of an organism
Musical instruments
* Organ (music), a family of keyboard musical instruments characterized by sustained tone
** Electronic organ, an electronic keyboard instrument
** Hammond ...
* Classical Music Performance,
piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...
* Classical Music Performance, piano
chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small nu ...
and
lied
In Western classical music tradition, (, plural ; , plural , ) is a term for setting poetry to classical music to create a piece of polyphonic music. The term is used for any kind of song in contemporary German, but among English and French s ...
* Classical Music Performance,
vocal music
Vocal music is a type of singing performed by one or more singers, either with instrumental accompaniment, or without instrumental accompaniment (a cappella), in which singing provides the main focus of the piece. Music which employs singing but d ...
and
collaborative piano Collaborative piano is a discipline of music that combines piano performance, accompaniment, and music pedagogy (and often, vocal coaching).
Genres
Instrumental literature
One responsibility of the collaborative pianist is to perform the pian ...
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Composition
Composition or Compositions may refer to:
Arts and literature
*Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography
*Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include v ...
and
Music Theory
Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory". The first is the " rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (k ...
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Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert. It has been defined as "the art of directing the simultaneous performance of several players or singers by the use of gesture." The primary dutie ...
*
Folk Music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has ...
*
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...
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Music Education
Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as elementary or secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors. Music education is also a research area in which scholars do origin ...
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Music Technology
Music technology is the study or the use of any device, mechanism, machine or tool by a musician or composer to make or perform music; to compose, notate, playback or record songs or pieces; or to analyze or edit music.
History
The earli ...
* Nordic Master in
Folk Music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has ...
* Nordic Master in
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...
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Popular
Popularity or social status is the quality of being well liked, admired or well known to a particular group.
Popular may also refer to:
In sociology
* Popular culture
* Popular fiction
* Popular music
* Popular science
* Populace, the total ...
and Folk Music (research)
Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki (dance, theatre)
* Degree Programme in
Acting
Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor or actress who adopts a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode.
Acting involves a broad r ...
(in Finnish)
* Degree Programme in
Acting
Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor or actress who adopts a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode.
Acting involves a broad r ...
(in Swedish)
* Degree Programme in
Dance
Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire ...
* Degree Programme in
Directing
* Degree Programme in
Dramaturgy
Dramaturgy is the study of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage.
The term first appears in the eponymous work ''Hamburg Dramaturgy'' (1767–69) by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Lessing composed th ...
* Master's Degree Programme in
Choreography
Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who cr ...
* Master's Degree Programme in
Dance Pedagogy
* Master's Degree Programme in
Dance Performance
* Master's Degree Programme in
Lighting Design
In theatre, a lighting designer (or LD) works with the director, choreographer, set designer, costume designer, and sound designer to create the lighting, atmosphere, and time of day for the production in response to the text while keeping i ...
* Master's Degree Programme in
Sound
In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' by ...
* Master's Degree Programme in
Theatre Pedagogy
Theatre pedagogy (german: Theaterpädagogik) is an independent discipline combining both theatre and pedagogy. As a field that arose during the 20th century, theatre pedagogy has developed separately from drama education, the distinction being that ...
* Master's Degree Programme in
Live Art
Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...
and
Performance Studies
Performance studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses performance as a lens and a tool to study the world. The term ''performance'' is broad, and can include artistic and aesthetic performances like concerts, theatrical events, ...
(LAPS)
Notable staff
Academy of Fine Arts
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Tuulikki Pietilä
Ida Helmi Tuulikki Pietilä (18 February 1917 – 23 February 2009) was an American-born Finnish graphic artist and professor. Pietilä is considered one of Finland's most influential graphic artists, with her work being shown in multiple art exh ...
(teacher of printmaking, Art Academy School 1956–1960, now the Academy of Fine Arts)
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Helene Schjerfbeck
Helena Sofia (Helene) Schjerfbeck (; July 10, 1862 – January 23, 1946) was a Finnish painter. A modernist painter, she is known for her realist works and self-portraits, and also for her landscapes and still lifes. Throughout her long life, h ...
(teacher of a painting atelier and a figure drawing class at the Finnish Art Society's Drawing School 1892-1902)
Sibelius Academy
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Martti Rousi (Professor of Cello Music 1998)
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Erik T. Tawaststjerna (Professor of Piano Music 1986-)
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Petteri Salomaa
Juha Petteri Salomaa (born 26 August 1961, Helsinki) is a Finnish operatic bass-baritone who has had an active international singing career in operas and concerts since the late 1970s. He has performed on more than 30 recordings with a variety of r ...
(Professor of Vocal Music 2003-)
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Réka Szilvay
Réka Riikka Szilvay (born 16 April 1972) is a Finnish classical violinist. She was born in Helsinki, Finland, into an Austrian–Hungarian family. She is the daughter of the violinist Géza Szilvay and the niece of the cellist Csaba Szilvay ...
(Professor of Violin Music 2006-)
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Leif Segerstam (Professor of Orchestral Conducting 1997-2013)
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Einojuhani Rautavaara
Einojuhani Rautavaara (; 9 October 1928 – 27 July 2016) was a Finnish composer of classical music. Among the most notable Finnish composers since Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), Rautavaara wrote a great number of works spanning various styles. T ...
(Professor of Composition 1976-1990)
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Veli-Matti Puumala
Veli-Matti Puumala (born 18 July 1965, Kaustinen, Finland) is a Finnish composer. He is currently (since 2005) the professor of composition at the Sibelius Academy.
Puumala studied composition in Helsinki under Paavo Heininen from 1984 to 1993 and ...
(Professor of Composition 2005-)
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Jorma Panula
Jorma Juhani Panula (born 10 August 1930) is a Finnish conductor, composer, and teacher of conducting. He has mentored many Finnish conductors, such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mikko Franck, Sakari Oramo, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Osmo Vänskä and Klaus ...
(Professor of Conducting 1973–1993)
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Erkki Melartin
Erkki Gustaf Melartin (7 February 1875, Käkisalmi – 14 February 1937, Helsinki) was a Finnish composer, conductor, and teacher of the late-Romantic and early-modern periods. Melartin is generally considered to be one of Finland's most sign ...
(director of the Helsinki Music Institute 1911–1936, now the Sibelius Academy)
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Hannu Lintu
Hannu Petteri Lintu (born 13 October 1967) is a Finnish conductor.
Biography
Lintu was born in Rauma. He studied piano and cello at the Turku Conservatory and at the Sibelius Academy. He also studied conducting with Atso Almila, and later with ...
(Visiting Professor, Conducting and Orchestral Training 2014-)
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Paavo Heininen
Paavo Johannes Heininen (13 January 1938 – 18 January 2022) was a Finnish composer and pianist.
Biography
He was born in Helsinki, where he studied at the Sibelius Academy and was taught composition by Aarre Merikanto, Einojuhani Rautavaara, E ...
(Professor of Composition)
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Andrew Bentley
Andrew "Andy" Bentley (born 13 May 1985) is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who plays as a or for Toulouse Olympique in the Betfred Championship.
He is a France and Scotland international representative forward and has pre ...
(Artistic Professor of Music Technology 2015-)
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Atso Almila Atso Almila (born 13 June 1953, in Helsinki 1) is a Finnish orchestral conductor, music director, composer, trombonist and teacher.
He has worked with most Finnish orchestras as a guest conductor or otherwise. Though he primarily operates in Fin ...
(Professor of Conducting and Orchestral Training 2013-)
Theatre Academy
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Kari Väänänen
Kari Kyösti Väänänen (born 17 September 1953 in Ivalo) is a Finnish actor and director. Domestically he is a member of the Ryhmäteatteri group of actors. He was introduced to international audiences by Aki Kaurismäki, and belongs to the li ...
(Professor of Acting 1.11.1992–28.2.1998)
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Vesa Vierikko
Vesa Tapio Vierikko (born 24 May 1956 in Lappeenranta, Finland) is a Finnish actor.
Vierikko began acting in 1978 on television working consistently throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He starred in the 2003 film ''Sibelius'' working with Finnish d ...
(Professor of Acting 2002–2012)
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Ritva Valkama
Ritva Valkama-Palo (born Ritva Karin Valkama; 13 November 1932 – 8 May 2020) was a Finnish actress. She was known for her comic roles and appeared in theatres, films and on television.
Television series ''Parempi myöhään...'' (1979–1 ...
(Professor of Acting 1.8.1985–31.8.1988)
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Jouko Turkka
Jouko Veli Turkka (17 April 1942 – 22 July 2016) was a Finnish theatrical director and controversialist. He was assistant director of the Helsinki City Theatre from 1975 to 1982, and a professor at the Helsinki Theatre Academy from 1981 to 1988, ...
(Professor of Acting 1983–1985)
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Pirkko Saisio (Professor of Dramaturgy 1.1.1997–30.6.2002)
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Laura Ruohonen (Professor of Dramaturgy 1.6.2008–31.5.2013)
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Kati Outinen (Professor of Acting 2002–2013)
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Kaisa Korhonen
Kaisa Korhonen (born 20 July 1941) is a Finnish singer, actor, theatre director and writer. She was a central figure in the Finnish leftist music scene of the 60s and 70s, appearing both as a solo artist, and with KOM-teatteri. After her singing ...
(Professor of Directing 1.8.1995–31.7.2000)
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Elina Knihtilä
Mari Elina Knihtilä (born 6 June 1971) is a Finnish actress.
Career
Knihtilä has worked for several Finnish theatres, such as the Finnish National Theatre and Q-teatteri, while also having appeared in films and on television. She has received ...
(Professor of Acting 2013-2018)
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Hannu-Pekka Björkman
Hannu-Pekka Juhani Björkman (born 11 February 1969 in Kannonkoski) is a Finnish actor who has appeared in theatres, on television and in films. In 2005, he won a Jussi Award for the best actor in a leading role for a film ''Eläville ja kuolleill ...
(Professor of Acting 2013-2018)
Student Union
The University of the Arts Student Union is a student organisation that provides services and promotes the interest of its members. All Bachelor's and Master's students studying at any of the three academies of the University of the Arts Helsinki are members of the University of the Arts Student Union. The Student Union was established on 1 January 2013 as a result of the merger between the student unions of the Academy of Fine Arts, Sibelius Academy and Theatre Academy. The University of the Arts Student Union is the only Finnish student union whose members exclusively consist of students studying in the field of arts.
In addition to promoting the interest of its members, the University of the Arts Student Union is in charge of Vapaan taiteen tila, a space for the university's students to organise their own exhibitions, performances and events. The venue is in an emergency shelter under the Katri Vala Park in Helsinki.
Organisation
Rectors
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Tiina Rosenberg 2013–1.6.2015
* Paula Tuovinen 2.6.2015–30.11.2015
* Jari Perkiömäki 1.12.2015–30.11.2020
*Kaarlo Hildén 1.12.2020–
Board 2018-2021
* Researcher of economic culture Paavo Järvensivu
* Board professional and executive Heikki Lehtonen (chair of the board)
* Professor Marja Makarow
* Director of the Cultural Office of the City of Helsinki Stuba Nikula
* LL.M. with court training Astrid Thors (vice-chair)
* Professor Eeva Anttila
* Professor Petteri Salomaa
* Facilities expert Kari Karlsson
* Senior Advisor Hannu Tolvanen
* Student Lukas Korpelainen
* Student Sofia Raittinen
References
External links
Official websiteHeikki Lehtonen to chair the Uniarts Helsinki BoardUniversity cooperation boosts art research in HelsinkiNew cross-artistic campus to be built for Uniarts HelsinkiUniversity of the Arts Helsinki and Flow Festival present impressive arts program
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