Composition

Tuurna is a versatile composer of music for chamber ensembles, art songs and solo piano. She particularly enjoys writing music for singers. Her most recent works include a chamber music piece, Mood (2024), a song cycle Edda! (2023), two chamber operas called The Box (2021) and The Years of Silence (2017), and a musical fairytale, Kaupin poika (2014). She has co-written two singles for The Voice of Finland 2021 winner, Kalle Virtanen.

Her style combines elements of contemporary art music, jazz, theatre music, impressionism and folk music. Frequently, the pieces invite the musician to improvise, which ignites a creative dialogue between composer and performer, giving different shapes to the piece with each performer and performance.

Her composition projects have been supported with grants from Svenska kulturfonden, Föreningen konstsamfundet, Vantaa and Helsinki cities, Otto Malm lahjoitusrahasto and Suomen Säveltäjät ry.