Ari Poutiainen

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Ari Poutiainen (b. 1972 in Kaarlela, Finland) is a Finnish contemporary jazz violist and composer.


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[edit] Music career

Poutiainen is famous for using a rare, hybrid 5 string viola (both acoustic and electric) as his main instrument. He often plucks the instrument with his fingers, while holding it like the guitar. This instrumental approach enables him to produce unconventional chords and sounds on viola.

Poutiainen graduated from Sibelius Academy. His original, modern jazz style is also based on long studies abroad - in Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, UK, and the USA. Beside his career as a performing jazz violist, he has been a successful composer and arranger. In Finland, he has led the groups called Soul Small Instruments, Another & Fast, NoneAlike, The String Thing, Open Strings, and Farther-Out. He has worked and performed, for example, in Benin (West Africa), France, Germany, Russia, and the USA.

Currently Poutiainen is conducting his doctoral studies on jazz violin.[1]


[edit] Selected discography

Montevideo: Come Clean (2006)

The Groovy Eldorado Ensemble: Schokobananen/ Groovy Eldorado (2006)

Sue Van Doe: Elämä (2005)

Teemu Raita: Kuuleeko maa? (2004)

Max Savikangas: Extraterrestrial (2003)

NoneAlike: More Than a Mirror (2003)

Liisa Lux: Liisa Lux (2002)

Nat Newborn and the Lounge Lions: Under the Umbrella (2001)

B-Band: Hear the Truth (2000)

Jyväskylän yliopiston sinfoniaorkesteri: T'an'go (1999)

The Pansies: Solace (1999)

Ultra Bra: Kroketti (1997)


[edit] Selected film[2], stage play, and dance performance soundtracks

Trava Group: Gleis Novi Sad (2004)

Zaida Bergroth: Last Minute Shopping (2001)

Piia Pasi: Asfalttilampaat (2000)

Johanna Onnismaa: Vartija (1999)

Mari Tolkkinen: Miss Hill (1998)

Pekka Lehtinen: Skin Deep (1997)

Teppo Räisänen: Pilvilinna (1997)

Sirkka Knall: In Lieu of Sister (1996)

Samu Heikkilä: Day of a Contract Killer (1996)

Anna Almhöjd: Våra torsdagar (1996)


[edit] Selected publications and conference presentations

Towards Eclecticism in Jazz Violin Education: Background Study on the Fingering Schemes Approach (Finnish Journal of Music Education, in press)

Berlin Jazz Jam Sessions, Top 5 (2006, Mondo: Berliini) (i)

Scale Fingerings in Jazz Violin Improvisation (2004, Musiikin suunta 4: 58-63) (i)

Carl Flesch’s Scale Fingering System in Contemporary Jazz Violin Education (2004, Presentation at Jyväskylä International Summer Jazz Conference)

The Bebop Idiom in Didier Lockwood's Improvisation (2003, Presentation at Jyväskylä International Summer Jazz Conference)

How to Introduce Jazz in Public Music Schools? (2001, Mutes 1: 32) (i)

Introducing the Modes and Modal Improvising: An Approach for Young Students of Classical Music (2001, Mutes 1: 33-34) (i)

Brecker and Patterns (1999, Presentation at Jyväskylä International Summer Jazz Conference)

Brecker and Patterns: An Analysis of Michael Brecker's Melodic and Instrumental Devices (1999, Master of Arts Thesis)


All written in English, except those indicated with (i), which are written in Finnish.


[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ www.finnjazz.com - Musicians index/ Poutiainen Ari
  2. ^ www.elonet.fi - Personsearch/ Poutiainen Ari


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