Päivi Järviö

Mezzo-soprano, DMus. Päivi Järviö specializes in the singing, researching and teaching of Baroque and Renaissance music. She has performed as a soloist with numerous baroque ensembles and orchestras in Finland as well as abroad. Her recordings include music by Claudio Monteverdi, Luigi Rossi, Henry Purcell, and Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco. As expert of performing practices of baroque music, she has worked with singers, choirs, ensembles and conductors. In 2011 she completed her doctoral thesis on the embodied performing practice of Italian Early Baroque music, and is currently working as university lecturer at the DocMus Doctoral School at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts, Helsinki. After having completed her doctoral studies, she worked as a musician-researcher in a project funded by the Kone Foundation. In 2012 she also worked as a senior research fellow in the Artistic Experimentation in Music research project at the Orpheus Institute (Gent, Belgium). Her present research focuses on the history of Early Music performance in Finland, the embodied, present-day practice of performing so-called Early Music and embodied historiography.