EMBODIED: Soprano Solo (2018)
Jarkko Hartikainen, composer
Meeri Pulakka, soprano

January 15, 2019 (world premiere)
Camerata hall, Musiikkitalo
Helsinki (Finland)

Jarkko Hartikainen and Meeri Pulakka began their first musical collaboration by retreating to Rome for the month of September. EMBODIED: Soprano Solo (2018) takes the composer's collaboration-heavy research of the 'body' in instrumental music and sound to new contexts. There is no text in the traditional sense. The vowels, consonants and other vocal techniques serve expressivity in the bodily registers of the singer(s) embodied by the one-, two- and three-voiced music: Cecilia of Trastevere (tortured widow of Valerian), who never stopped singing... and soprano Meeri Pulakka, who also doesn't seem to.

© 2018 Jarkko Hartikainen

Talven nuoret taiteilijat: Meeri Pulakka

EMBODIED: Soprano Solo (2018)

www.jarkkohartikainen.net
sheet music: core.musicfinland.fi/composers/jarkko-hartikainen

Jarkko Hartikainen is a composer striving to create works that explore what music is and could still be, researching the possibilities in sound through rigorous performer-collaboration as well as studying findings in a plethora of disciplines. Stimulating acoustic phenomena, exciting sonorities and concrete, bodily impulses through rhythm, resonance and empathy fuel his often extremely instrument-specific, concentrated writing. Currently Hartikainen is working as a commission-based freelance composer, as well as pursuing his D.Mus degree at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. Eriikka Maalismaa, defunensemble, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Ensemble Adapter and other such distinguished performers have recently promoted his work.