CV ASSI KARTTUNEN

Harpsichordist, researcher DMus Assi Karttunen has specialized in researching Artist Pedagogy, Ethics of Art, Early Music, Historically Informed Performance, Artistic Research and Artistic Thinking. She also performs as a soloist and chamber musician in interdisciplinary groups with experimental and contemporary repertory.

Karttunen has recorded 4 CDs of solo works by Couperin, Rameau, Froberger, Lynch and Frescobaldi (Jubal, Alba, Divine Art Recordings Group, Pilfilnk Records). As a soloist she has performed in Italy, Belgium, UK, Ireland, Germany, Scotland, Japan, Russia, Germany, Estonia, Norway, Denmark and Sweden and played in several orchestras and ensembles. Karttunen played for 11 years in FiBo and worked as an artistic director during 2006– 2016 in the Elysian Fields-workshop. She performs in the Superpluck Trio, which premieres vast amounts of contemporary music.

Karttunen works as a senior postdoc researcher at the Profi6 research project and as a supervisor and teacher at the DocMus, Doctoral school of Sibelius Academy and at the Early Music faculty. Karttunen has published her research in journals like a peer-reviewed quarterly journal Musiikki, Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics JCLA, Trio Research Publication, and Ruukku Studies in Artistic Research.

Photo by Heikki Tuuli.