Sini Koskelainen is a singer, composer, and vocal coach specializing in powerful a cappella music. Koskelainen’s music, singing, and performance reflect a global cultural heritage, physicality, power, a deep connection to nature, Finnish birds, film music, folk beliefs, and experimental, Nordic, and Slavic vocal techniques.
Koskelainen’s compositions Alku and Elda (performed by Tuuletar, released by Bafe’s Factory) have been licensed for the TV series Monarca (Netflix, Mexico, 2019), Game of Thrones (HBO, USA, 2017), and Wentworth (Netflix, Australia, 2017).
Koskelainen has trained in rhythm music, world music, performance art, and vocal improvisation in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. She graduated in 2016 from the Högskolan För Scen och Musik in Gothenburg with a Bachelor of Music degree in the improvisational performance program, where she studied vocal improvisation, jazz, composition, world music, and performance art under the guidance of Anders Jormin, Anders Hagberg, Benedikte Esper, Ida Lodi, and Ingrid Brännström. Prior to that, she studied for a year in Aarhus, Denmark, at the Royal Academy of Music in the rhythm music program. In Finland, Koskelainen graduated from the Pop & Jazz Conservatory in the professional musician program, with Sanni Orasmaa as her primary teacher.
Koskelainen is currently active as a singer-songwriter in the multi-award-winning a cappella ensemble Tuuletar and the dynamic contemporary folk music group Kajos. Tuuletar won the 2017 Emma Award for Ethno Album of the Year with their debut album Tules, Maas, Vedes, Taivaal, and the group was honored with the Internationalization of the Year award at the 2019 Etnogaala. The group has also won the Audience Favorite award in the pop category at the prestigious vocal.total a cappella competition in Graz.
In addition, Koskelainen composes and produces catalog/production music with film composer Mari Sainio for Universal Production Music. In previous years, Koskelainen has worked, among other things, as a model in Marja Hepoaho and Sini Majuri’s Infinity Vessel glass art and sculpture project, as a substitute musician in folk dancer Arttu Peltoniemi’s stage production Keihästanssija, as a performer in the Vuodenkierto project (Nuuksion Taika) aimed at reviving traditional festivals, as a commissioned composer for a hypnosis relaxation project, as a singer in the multi-award-winning Icelandic silent film See no evil/Betur sjá augu (Callow Youth Productions/Nykur Media, 2021), and as a guest vocalist on the metal band HARMS’ album A lifetime spent on dying.
Koskelainen considers teaching singing to be a labor of love alongside creating music and performing.
