Univ.-Prof.
Pauliina Tukiainen
Finnish pianist Pauliina Tukiainen has established herself internationally as a versatile performer and professor for Lied. In addition to her concert activities, she regularly teaches masterclasses and workshops and serves as a jury member for international Lied competitions. Since 2017, she has held a professorship for Lied Interpretation at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.
In addition to her long-standing duo partner, Finnish baritone Arttu Kataja, she has performed in recent years with singers such as Iida Antola, Juliane Banse, Ingeborg Danz, Karine Deshayes, Mojca Erdmann, David Fischer, Silvia Hauer, Johannes Held, Henk Neven, Christoph Prégardien, Julian Prégardien, Andreas Schmidt, Marie Seidler and Christoph Strehl.
Pauliina Tukiainen has performed at numerous festivals in her home country as well as at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Oslo Konserthus and the Hugo Wolf Academy. Further performances have taken her to the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Lake Constance Festival, the Lied Würzburg Festival, the Fundación Juan March in Madrid, SongEasel in London and the Enescu Festival in Bucharest. She has also given concerts in South Africa, India and Vietnam. Concert recordings have been made by numerous German and international radio stations.
Following her debut CD Mirrors, which was highly acclaimed in the press and featured works by Jean Sibelius and Kaija Saariaho, further recordings were released on the Coviello Classics label with songs by Alban Berg, Claude Debussy, Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner, as well as a first recording of Wolfgang Rihm's Ophelia sings. Her CD Serious Songs with Arttu Kataja on Alba Records was nominated for Album of the Year by Finnish Radio in 2020. This duo also released Schubert's Winterreise on the same label in 2022.
Pauliina Tukiainen has a long-standing artistic and programmatic collaboration with the Schumannfest in Bonn, where she has also created a platform for younger song duos.
Pauliina Tukiainen studied piano in Finland and Frankfurt am Main. During her song studies with Hartmut Höll and Anne Le Bozec in Zurich and Karlsruhe, she was awarded numerous prizes and scholarships. She received further artistic inspiration from Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Ralf Gothóni, Thomas Hampson, Christoph Prégardien and Wolfgang Rihm.
In addition to her concert activities, she taught song interpretation at the music academies in Frankfurt am Main and Freiburg im Breisgau and is in demand internationally as a lecturer at master classes and workshops, including at the Royal College of Music in London, the opera studio of the Vienna Volksoper, the Mahler Academy in Bolzano, the ESMUC Barcelona, the summer academy of the Mozarteum University Salzburg, the Sibelius Academy, the German Lied Academy and the Lied the Way workshop. She has been a jury member for ‘Schubert and Modernism’ in Graz, the Nadia et Lili Boulanger Competition in Paris, the Helsinki Lied Competition, the International Lied Duo Competition in Groningen, the Paula Salomon-Lindberg Lied Competition and the German Music Competition. Pauliina Tukiainen heads the Female Artist in Residence programme at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, where she has been professor of song interpretation since 2017.