Eva Alkula

Eva Alkula

Kantele musician Eva Alkula specializes in contemporary music and Japanese-influenced music. Eva performs regularly as a soloist and in various chamber music ensembles in Finland and abroad. Her collaborations with contemporary composers, musicians, and visual artists have generated many new works for the kantele, concert projects, and installations. With an ever-broadening international audience, she has given concerts across Europe, as well as in Russia, the USA and Japan. Her connections to Japanese music and culture run especially deep and span almost her entire professional life. In 1999-2000 she studied koto playing in Hokkaido University of Education and she continues to visit Japan annually, collaborating with koto artist Tomoya Nakai. In 2003, she graduated from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.Eva also works as a teacher. Since 2009 she has been teaching in the Tampere Conservatory.