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Olli Paavo Antero Kortekangas (born May 16, 1955 in Turku, Finland) is a Finnish composer. His early career in music began at Espoon Musiikkiopisto (Espoo Music Institute) and the youth choir Candomino. He then studied at the Sibelius Academy as a pupil of Eero Hämeenniemi and Einojuhani Rautavaara from 1974 to 1981, and completed his studies in West Berlin with Dieter Schnebel from 1981 to 1982. Later he has held teaching positions at the Sibelius Academy and the National Theater Academy. He was Composer-in-Residence at Oulu Sinfonia from 1997 to 2007. He has composed about 140 works covering a broad range, from choral works and instrumental miniatures to orchestral music and operas. He has received commissions from ten countries. Among his recent large-scale works are Seven Songs for Planet Earth, commissioned by the Choral Arts Society of Washington and the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, and Migrations for mezzo-soprano, male voice chorus and orchestra, commissioned by The Minnesota Orchestra. Kortekangas is particularly known for his choral music and operas, of which the latest are Messenius and Lucia (2004), ''Daddy's Girl'' (2007), ''One Night Stand'' (2011) and Own Fault (2015). His work list also includes a number of chamber as well as instrumental solo works, particularly for organ. Kortekangas has received a number of awards and recognitions, among them the Salzburg Opera Prize, the Special Prize of the Prix Italia Competition, and the prestigious Teosto Prize. == External links == * * (Finnish Music Information Centre ) * (Fennica Gehrman (publisher) ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Olli Kortekangas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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