Dr. Maria Kallionpää

Assistant Professor, Department of Music


Interdisciplinary Research & Creative Practice
Electro Acoustic Composition
Super Instruments; Performance Studies
Procedural Music Systems; Contemporary Opera



Dr. Kallionpää is an internationally active composer and pianist. Her research as postdoctoral fellow (2016-2018) at the University of Aalborg focused on gamification as a composition technique (funded by Kone Foundation, Finland). Furthermore, as a winner of the Fabbrica Young Artist Development Program of Opera di Roma, Kallionpää was commissioned to compose an opera (fp: Teatro Nazionale, Rome, Oct 2017). In collaboration with her colleague Markku Klami, Kallionpää has composed the first full length puppet opera produced in the Nordic Countries (fp: March 2018). Kallionpää was a laureate of Académie de France à Rome in 2016. She got her PhD in composition at the university of Oxford in 2015 and has graduated from the Royal Academy of Music (2009) and Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien (2010). Kallionpää won the first prize of the OUPHIL composition competition in 2013.

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Featured Project

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Croak – or the Unexpected Joys and Perils of Singing
The opera Croak – Or The Unexpected Joys And Perils of Singing premiered at Promenadi Hall in Pori on Friday 9th of March 2018.

All Projects

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"Climb!" - A Composition Case Study. Actualising and Replicating Virtual Spaces in Classical Music Composition and Performance
She - An Opera of Imagination
Conference Paper "Composing and realising a game-like performance for Disklavier and electronics"
Sprits of the Land, Lakes, and Sea: Interdisciplinary Opera as a Platform for Research on Nature, Humanity, and Memories
Tampere Biennale 2020: El Canto del Mar Infinito (commissioned) for Uusinta Ensemble.