Olli Paavo Antero Kortekangas (born 16 May 1955) is a Finnish composer. Historical Dictionary of the Music and Musicians of Finland - Page 186 Ruth-Esther Hillila, Barbara Blanchard Hong · 1997 "Kortekangas studied composition at the Sibelius Academy with Einojuhani Rautavaara and Eero Hameenniemi from 1974 to 1981, did studies at the ... " Kortekangas was born in

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. His early career in music began at Espoon Musiikkiopisto (Espoo Music Institute) and the youth choir Candomino. He then studied at the

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as a pupil of

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and

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from 1974 to 1981, and completed his studies in West Berlin with

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and in San Diego (UCSD) with

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. Later he has held teaching positions at the Sibelius Academy and the National Theater Academy. He was Composer-in-Residence at Oulu Sinfonia from 1997 to 2007.

Career

He has composed about 150 works covering a broad range, from choral works and instrumental miniatures to orchestral music and operas. He has received commissions from ten countries. Among his recent large-scale works are Seven Songs for Planet Earth, commissioned by the Choral Arts Society of Washington and the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Migrations for mezzo-soprano, male voice chorus and orchestra, commissioned by The

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and recorded by

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, and the song cycle Songs of Meena, commissioned by The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Kortekangas is particularly known for his choral music and operas, of which the latest are '' Messenius ja Lucia'' (2004), ''

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'' (2007), ''

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'' (2011), ''Oma vika'' (Own Fault, 2015), '' Veljeni vartija'' (My Brother's Keeper, 2018), and ''Koria täti'' (2021), as well as the church operas ''Elämänkuvat'' (Pictures of Life, 2019) and ''Ende und Beginn'' (2021). Kortekangas's work list also includes a number of chamber as well as instrumental solo works, particularly for organ and period instruments.

Awards

Kortekangas has received a number of awards and recognitions, among them the Salzburg Opera Prize, the Special Prize of the Prix Italia Competition, and the prestigious Teosto Prize.

References

External links

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Finnish Music Information Centre

1955 births Living people 20th-century Finnish classical composers Musicians from Turku Finnish male classical composers 20th-century Finnish male musicians {{Finland-composer-stub