Tarja Turunen is remembered in music for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Tarja Turunen as Finnish singer.
Tarja Turunen was born at Kitee in 1977. Her recorded nationality is Finland. She was educated at Sibelius Academy and Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe.
Modern careers are conducted in public and at speed, with reputations formed and revised far faster than the work itself changes.
She worked as opera singer, composer and pianist.
Music outlives its context more reliably than any other art, and usually for reasons its makers did not predict.
Working from Finland shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Tarja Turunen is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Educated at Sibelius Academy and Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe
- Worked as opera singer, composer and pianist
