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.
Pauliina Tukiainen studied piano in Finland and Frankfurt am Main. During her studies in Lied 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 long-standing duo partner, the Finnish baritone Arttu Kataja, she has performed in recent years with singers including 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 appeared at numerous festivals in her home country as well as at major venues including 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 Bodensee 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.
She maintains a long-standing artistic and programmatic collaboration with the Schumannfest in Bonn, where she has also created a platform for emerging Lied duos.
Following her debut CD Mirrors, which was highly acclaimed by the press and features works by Jean Sibelius and Kaija Saariaho, further recordings have been 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; the duo also released Schubert’s Winterreise on the same label in 2022.
In addition to her performing career, she has taught Lied interpretation at the music academies in Frankfurt am Main and Freiburg im Breisgau and is in demand internationally as a lecturer at masterclasses and workshops, including at the Royal College of Music in London, the Vienna Volksoper Opera Studio, the Mahler Academy in Bolzano, ESMUC Barcelona, the International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg, the Sibelius Academy, the German Lied Academy and the Lied the Way workshop. She has served as a jury member for the “Schubert and Modernism” Competition 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.
At the Mozarteum University Salzburg, she also heads the Female Artist in Residence programme.