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Curriculum Vitae

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Languages
Studies,
diplomas

  • Matriculation examination (A level), Seinäjoki High School 1981

  • Master of Music, Sibelius-Academy, 1997

  • Numerous professional courses related to music teaching, music education and drama

  • Basic and subject studies in Drama education, University of Jyväskylä Open University, 2011-2013

  • Diploma in Drama education, 2013 (Proficiency in teaching expression skills)

Study trips,
scolarships,
grants

  • Scholarship of the Finnish Rome Institute for studying singing and Italian, Rome, 1986

  • Japanese state scholarship to participate on a Finnish students’ study tour in Japan, 1987

  • Participation on a study trip Orff in Africa, Ghana, 2010

  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs grant for organising workshops for the ChiNamibia children’s culture association (2015) and for the University of Namibia and the ChiNamibia (2017)

  • Travel grant from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2017)

  • Six month working grant from the Southern Ostrobothnian fund of the Finnish Culture Fund to realize a musical play with young immigrants and Finns together, 12000 euros (2017)

  • Several different grants for my choirs for different purposes, granted by for example the Finnish Culture Fund’s South Ostrobothnian fund, the Arts Council of Ostrobothnia, the City of Seinäjoki, the international mobility and cooperation organisation CIMO, Satumaa ry, Lions, the International Young Culture association, the Cultural board of the City of Seinäjoki, and Liiveri ry, association of regional development.

  • Finnish

  • English

  • Swedish

  • (German, French, Italian)

Personal data

  • Orrenmaa Hanne Kristiina

  • Place of birth: Kuortane

  • Date of birth: 31.12.1962

Professional
activities

  • Teacher of pop-jazz singing and history of western music, Oulunkylän Pop&Jazz Conservatory, 1991-1993

  • Junior lecturer of music, Vaasa, 1993-1999

  • Music teacher, Nurmo High School and Junior High, 2000-, also drama teacher, Nurmo High School, 2013- and the teacher of the course of joint responsibility 2015-2018

Sivutoimet, luottamustoimet, ansiot
Other
professional
activities,
official posts,
merits

  • Member of the Academic Council of music education in Sibelius Academy, 1984-1986

  • Board member of the National Association of School Music Teachers, 2009-

  • Member of Music for the Youth national association, 2012

  • Deputy member of the board of FISMEN (Finnish Society of Music Education), 2017-

  • Honorary consul of Lithuania, 2018-

  • Finnish coordinator at the European Association of Music in Schools, participation in foreign conferences 2014-, music and drama workshops at the EAS conference: Rostock, Germany 2015, Vilnius, Lithuania 2016. Responsible of the EAS Student Forum 2017-

  • Singer and soloist in numerous choirs since 1974, for example Seinäjoki Girls’ Choir; Sibelius Academy Chamber Choir; Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir; the Finnish Philharmonic Choir; the International Vox Europae -choir (one of the founding members, chairman 1987-1992, secretary 1992-1999, secretary 2011-); the music teahcers’ Muka -choir (founder and executive director); female choir Tuulivoima (founder, second conductor, managing director and chairman of the association; Eija Ahvo’s singing group Huvina (managing director)

  • Director of several choirs, for example Marttila school 6A class choir, Nurmo HIgh School choir, youth choir Luritus, childrens’ choir Preluri, female choir Tuulivoima, international youth choir YES, Dzikwa Choir in Harare, Zimbabwe (July 2016), singing group Nova

  • Innumerable international tours with choirs to approximately 15 European countries and Africa, USA and Asia

  • Substitute music teacher jobs before graduating, for example International School of Helsinki (spring term 1991)

  • Part-time pop/jazz singing teacher at the Vaasa Kuula Institute and the SingSing -pop-singing school

  • Summer journalist at the newspaper Ilkka and later assistant of the cultural edition

  • Vilnius, Lithuania, Singing Mrs Santa at Lithuania’s biggest Christmas event, International Christmas Charity Bazaar, 2007-

  • Several assignments as a judge at the Tango Festival of Seinäjoki, seniors and juniors

  • Representative of the regional jury of Seinäjoki at the Tango Festival of Seinäjoki, 2015

  • Innumerable substitute jobs and teacher exchange projects, drama seminars, workshops and lectures in Vilnius, Lithuania, 2004-: Vilnius International School, American International School of Vilnius, Teachers’ House, Valkystes Sodas -daycare centres

  • Music and drama workshops for choirs, schools, teacher trainees, and teachers (especially music teachers) for example in Finland, Lithuania, Austria, Namibia, Qatar

  • Singer and assistant conductor of singer Emma Salokoski in the Helsinki choir during the 3rd season of the TV4 production Clash of the Choirs, 2010

  • The most important merits of the Children and Youth Choir Luritus:

    • 1st prize at Europe’s biggest choir festival in Neerpelt, Belgium 2012

    • Musical play Tie Tangotalentiksi, 2012 (11 performances)

    • Performing at the Christmas concert of the Seinäjoki City Orchestra, 2013

    • Musical play LuMikko, 2016 (25 performances, 4000 spectators)

    • Concerts with Saara Aalto, Teemu Roivainen, and Softengine

  • Dramatising, directing and training many musical plays at the Nurmo High School

  • Managing the Southern Ostrobothnian part of the Finnish tours of Zambian Vocal Collection

  • Collaboration with the Finnish Embassy of Lithuania and the Finnish Consulate of Belarus at for example Independence day and Midsummer festivities

  • Collaboration with academician Jorma Panula; notably with the church musical Peltomiehen Rukous

Charity

  • Planning organising and realisation of many charity concerts; profits of concerts for example for tsunami victims in Japan and for Joint responsibility -fundraising

  • The biggest charity concert: Ihmeellinen maa -album release concert, funds raised for the protection of forests through the association Friends of Virgin Forests. The concert featured 120 performing artists (for example conductor Jorma Panula, actress Eija Ahvo, opera singer Tiina-Maija Koskela, and three choirs, 2013.

  • Volunteer work in Nepal: teaching music and drama for the young people of the Forward Looking -organisation, 2013

  • Founder and chairman of the charity association Anna Hyvän Kasvaa ry 2013- (registered association 2014-).

  • Projects of the association:

    • Joulumaa-polku (Christmas path) 2013-, funds raised for Finnish and immigrant families in need

    • Childern’s charity party 2014, funds raised for the children of a stone breaking village in Nepal and for street children in Egypt

    • Ikivihreät (Evergreens) -senior concert 2015, funds raised for recreational activities for seniors in the Seinäjoki area

    • Perhe on paras -family concert and -happening 2016, funds raised for the child welfare organisation Pajurinne

    • Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland grant for a cultural project in a developing country, Hanne spent two weeks teaching children in a slum environment in Namibia, 2015

    • Organising a charity concert of the Sibelius High School mixed choir, funds raised for the children of Cambodia

  • Several charity projects with Eija Ahvo, Unicef goodwill ambassador, 2009-

  • Several charity concerts with Luritus choir in senior homes, hospitals, refugee centres

  • Varied collaboration with refugees, for example “Together” - volunteer group for young protection seekers, Luritus choir performances at refugee reception centres

  • Volunteer actitivies of Nurmo High School joint responsibility class: regular meetings with lonely elderly people, assisting at charity happenings of Anna Hyvän Kasvaa, meetings with young protection seekers

  • 25 music-, rhythm- and drama workshops as volunteer work in 10 countries in different parts of the world (Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, India, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, China, Vietnam, Cambodia) July-December 2016

  • Training the Dzikwa Choir of the Zimbabwe centre for Aids -orphans, July 2016

  • Workshops as volunteer work for the University of Namibia and the Chi Namibia -childrens’ culture association, 2015, 2017

Literary
activity and
academic
releases

  • Master’s Thesis on Music teaching at the intermediate level and training of music teachers in Kenya 1992

  • Article Music education in Kenya - conflict of African and western traditions, Sibelius Academy publishing Music lessons from the world 1995

  • Music critics and articles in the newspaper Ilkka 1990-

  • Articles and CD and DVD critics in the ET -monthly magazine, the biggest in Finland, 2004-2009

  • Member of the Finnish Critics’ Association 2007-

  • Musical Tie Tangotalentiksi, manuscript and dramatising (11 performances by Luritus choir 2012)

  • Musical LuMikko, manuscript together with the singers of Luritus, dramatising (25 performances by Luritus choir 2016)

  • Musical Jos metsään haluat mennä nyt, joint project of young Afghan asylum seekers and young people from Seinäjoki (15 performances in 2018)

  • Musical Läppä manuscript together with the singers of Luritus, dramatising (21 performances in 2019)

Recordings

  • Sinulle, self release CD 2008, songs with band music accompaniment

  • Ihmeellinen maa, charity album, funds raised for the protection of forests, 1000 CD release. 220 performing artists in 12 different combinaisons (for example the choirs Philomela, Tuulivoima, Sorja, Luritus and Vox Europae, Zambian Vocal Collection, samba group Marcia Lisboa from Brasil, Eija Ahvo, Tuija Rantalainen) 2013

Decorations

  • Pro Culture -bronze medal from the National Association of School Music Teachers 2008

  • Pro Culture -bronze medal from the Trade Union of Education, Southern Ostrobothnian division, 2008

  • Honor awarded by the Seinäjoki City Orchestra for remarkable audience education, 2007

  • Environment award from the Finnish Association of Nature Conservation, Southern Ostrobothnian division, 2013

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