Finland, 1981
Finnish composer
Works for brass ensemble
- Radix (2013) for brass quintet
composer biography
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 Uniarts Helsinki. Eriikka Maalismaa, defunensemble, Ensemble SurPlus, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Ensemble Adapter, London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Schwerpunkt, and other such distinguished performers have recently promoted his work.