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Place of Birth: Turku, South-Western Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland
About Olli Kortekangas
- Olli Paavo Antero Kortekangas (born May 16, 1955) is a Finnish composer. Kortekangas was born in Turku.
- His early career in music began at Espoon Musiikkiopisto (Espoo Music Institute) and the youth choir Candomino.
- He then studied at the Sibelius Academy as a pupil of Eero Hämeenniemi and Einojuhani Rautavaara from 1974 to 1981, and completed his studies in West Berlin with Dieter Schnebel from 1981 to 1982.
- 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. He has composed about 140 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, and Migrations for mezzo-soprano, male voice chorus and orchestra, commissioned by The Minnesota Orchestra and recorded by BIS Records.
- Kortekangas is particularly known for his choral music and operas, of which the latest are Messenius and Lucia (2004), Daddy's Girl (2007), One Night Stand (2011) and Own Fault (2015).
- The latest opera is Veljeni vartija (My Brother's Keeper) to be premiered in February 2018 by the Tampere Opera.
- Kortekangas's work list also includes a number of chamber as well as instrumental solo works, particularly for organ. 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.
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