Riikka Talvitie
- Visiting researcher, composition, Sibelius Academy Doctoral Programme and Research Centre, Sibelius Academy
Part-time teacher, composition, Composition and music theory, Sibelius Academy - riikka.talvitie@uniarts.fi
Publications in the research database (22)
Introduction
Riikka Talvitie is a Finnish composer and educator whose artistic and research work explores composition, pedagogy, and artistic inquiry. She completed her artistic doctorate, The composer in flux: Towards dialogic practice, at the Sibelius Academy of Uniarts Helsinki in 2023. Her work has been recognized with the Finnish State Prize for Music (2022) and the International Prize for Artistic Research in Music (2025). Talvitie studied oboe and composition at the Sibelius Academy, finishing her Master of Music degree in oboe playing. During her studies, she spent an Erasmus exchange year (1995–1996) at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, where she studied composition with Gérard Grisey. Her composition studies included work with Olli Kortekangas, Tapio Nevanlinna, and Paavo Heininen, and she later attended IRCAM’s prestigious Cursus programme (2001–2002), studying with Philippe Leroux, Tristan Murail, and Philippe Manoury. From 2021 to 2025, Talvitie served as Lecturer in Composition at Uniarts Helsinki’s Department of Composition and Music Theory. Since 2026, she has continued teaching composition there as an hourly-paid teacher. Alongside her teaching and creative practice, she is currently carrying out the research project The legacy of modernism: A case study of individual teaching in music composition which is funded by Kone Foundation.