Outi Pulkkinen

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).