Biography

Biography (a longer version)

_{^{Sara Larikka is a pianist and composer living in Oulu, Finland. She works as a piano teacher at the Oulu Conservatoire.}}

_{^{Larikka was born in 1992 in Kemi, Lapland. She started piano lessons at the age of five with Virve Räisänen in the Sea Lapland Music Institute. In 2011, she began music pedagogue studies in Oulu University of Applied Sciences, where she studied piano with Jouko Tötterström. Larikka graduated in 2016 as a Bachelor of Culture and Arts with excellent grades. In 2020 she studied further in the OUAS Degree Programme in Artistic Development, graduating as a Master of Culture and Arts in 2021. Larikka has also taken private lessons from Joonas Pohjonen in 2014–2019.}}

_{^{Larikka performs frequently as a pianist in northern Finland. She has performed in productions of e.g. New Music October Festival, Northern Opera Company and Oulu Symphony. She has also participated piano competitions: Tampere Piano Competition 2017 and Leevi Madetoja Piano Competition 2015, in which she was awarded for the best performance of new Finnish music. In 2015 Larikka also competed in the final round of Stefano Marizza Piano Competition in Trieste, Italy.}}

^{_{In 2019 the sheet music of Sara Larikka’s composition Three Radiant Études was published by the Finnish music publishing company Modus Musiikki. In the same year the composition was also performed in the New Music October Festival in Oulu.}}

_{^{Larikka has participated master classes of Joonas Pohjonen, Paavali Jumppanen, Teppo Koivisto, Alessandro Cervino, Wendy Chen, Valeria Resjan and Tellef Juva.}}

_{^{Since 2016 Larikka has worked as a piano teacher at the Oulu Conservatoire.}}