Outi Pulkkinen
- University Arts Teacher, Folk music, Sibelius Academy
- outi.pulkkinen@uniarts.fi
Introduction
Outi Pulkkinen is an expert of Finnish traditional vocal music, jouhikko player, experimental voice artist and Doctor of Music specialized in ancient runo-singing and holistic improvisation with voice, movement and speech. Besides solo performances she workes with several bands, for example with female a cappella groups MeNaiset and Pulkkinen-Räss-Sadovska.
Pulkkinen has been teaching folk music, voice training and different improvisation courses at Sibelius Academy from year 1992.
Pulkkinen has released three solo-cds: Myyty neito (Runo-songs of Ingrian women, 2010), And All the Paths Ended (Experimental soundscapes created by Outi Pulkkinen, human voice, 2011) and Lemminkäinen (Runo-singing and jouhikko music from Finland, Karelia and Ingria, 2016).
Pulkkinen has been teaching folk music, voice training and different improvisation courses at Sibelius Academy from year 1992.
Pulkkinen has released three solo-cds: Myyty neito (Runo-songs of Ingrian women, 2010), And All the Paths Ended (Experimental soundscapes created by Outi Pulkkinen, human voice, 2011) and Lemminkäinen (Runo-singing and jouhikko music from Finland, Karelia and Ingria, 2016).