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Johanna Pitkänen

Johanna Pitk?nen is a pianist and composer from Helsinki. She has explored the musical globe from Scandinavia to Cuba and from different parts of Africa to Spain. Pitk?nen writes music by commission and performs on solo piano and with duos and trios. Her oldest ongoing group is Kokko Quartet, a Finnish jazz group using world music influences in their music. The group has released two albums, their latest release is Orient Express from 2016. Pitk?nen also writes music for film. In 2019 she released electronic music together with producer Satu Nieminen

Pitk?nen graduated from Metropolia University of Applied Sciences with a Bachelor��s degree in Pop and Jazz Music. She finished a Master of Music programme at The Royal College of Music in Stockholm.

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...Pitk?nen on piano excelled in her engaging composition Havis before the sounds of train horns, wild dogs and rickshaws were evoked by Siirala��s energetic Orient Express. All these pieces showed the quartet as cohesive unit well driven by Pitk?nen as leader. -Roger Mitchell, Ausjazz Blog

��New European names that impressed included the film music inspired mix of trumpet, cello and accordion of Oliver��s Cinema from the Netherlands, Germany��s Eric Schaefer & The Shredsz and the Zodiak Trio and the Kokko Quartet from Finland.�� -Jon Newey from Jazzwise Magazine at Jazzahead! 2013