Maria Kallionpää

Dr. Maria Kallionpää is an internationally active composer and pianist, working as an artistic researcher at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold (2023-). Kallionpää was an assistant professor of composition and contemporary music performance at the Hong Kong Baptist University (2018-2022), and has been a composer in residence of the Mixed Reality Laboratory of the University of Nottingham since 2016 until present. 2016-2018 she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Aalborg, her artistic research focusing on gamification as a composition technique. ​ Kallionpää obtained her PhD in composition at the university of Oxford in 2015. Furthermore, as a winner of the Fabbrica Young Artist Development Program of Opera di Roma, Kallionpää was commissioned an opera that was premiered at Teatro Nazionale Rome in 2017. In collaboration with her colleague Markku Klami, Kallionpää composed the first full length puppet opera produced in the Nordic Countries (premiered in 2018). She was a laureate of Académie de France à Rome in 2016. ​ ​