Full Resume (CV)

composer / board member / mentor

Tuomas Kettunen

Professional experience

Artistic work
Freelance
Composer

2016 –

Uuden Musiikin lokakuu -festival
Artistic Director

2023 – 2024, with Anna-Sofia Anttonen

multiple positions as
Teacher of music composition

2020 – 2022: Sibelius Academy (MuTe)

2024 – : Juvenalia Music Institute (Espoo)

2019 – : Pakila Music Institute (Helsinki)

multiple positions as
Teacher of music theory

2024 – 2026: Espoon musiikkiopisto (Espoo)

2019 – 2023: Luoteis-Helsingin musiikkiopisto (Helsinki)

multiple positions as
Board Member

2025 – : Music Finland ry

2023 – : Society of Finnish Composers ry

2025 – : Finnish Music Quartery (julkaisuneuvosto)

2022:     Koneen säätiö, asiantuntija (hakemukset)

2019:     University of the Arts Student Union (Vice Chair)

2020 – 2023: Suomen UNM ry

2020 – 2022: Mutes ry

2019 – 2022: Nykymusiikkiseura Lokakuu ry

2019 – 2020: Korvat Auki ry (vice chair)

Awards & Nominations

Prix Annelie de Man
Finalist (Time Machine)

2025, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

71st International Rostrum of Composers
Nominee (The Pirate Bay)

2025, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Lasten ja Nuorten Uuno Klami -sävellyskilpailu
3rd Prize

2012, Kotka, Finland

Education

Education
Master of Music
Sibelius Academy (University of the Arts Helsinki)

2013–2019, Helsinki

Exchange studies
USC Thornton School of Music

2018, Los Angeles

Composition Studies
Oulu Conservatoire

2009–2012

Académie Voix Nouvelles
2023: Royaumont, France

Du Yun, Philippe Leroux, Diana Soh

International Workshop for Young Composer
2021: Divertimento Ensemble, Italy

Du Yun, Philippe Leroux, Diana Soh

impuls academy
2021: Graz, Austria

Mark Andre, Giorgio Netti & Alberto Posadas

Solo Instrument Workshop
2021: Divertimento Ensemble, Italy

Mauro Lanza

Talent Village
2019: Les Arcs Film Festival, France
Composers' Masterclass
2018: Sounding Now, Singapore

Amnon Wolman & Peter Edwards

Composers' Masterclass
2017, Time of Music -festival, Finland

James Dillon

Sävellyspaja
2016, Suvisoitto -festival, Finland

Jukka Tiensuu & Tomi Räisänen

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