PERFORMING ARTS
I am Siiri Pakarinen
A passionate and creative performer with twenty years of lived experience in the performing arts as a hobby dancer and singer, who aspires to become a professional storyteller bymeans of her diary and emotional depth. During my years on Earth, I have always found purpose on stage and in the community that surrounds it. The determination to improve my skills and art stems from that intuitive place of joy in doing what you truly love.
Classical Singing
Mezzo-soprano
In the autumn of 2025 I finally made my dream a reality by enrolling in Kuopio Conservatory's classical singing programme – a school where I had also completed my dance training.
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Below you can listen to my recent performances!
Repertoire
what I have been singing lately
Classical
G. B. Pergolesi: Nina
H. Purcell: If Music Be the Food of Love (H. Heveningham)
L. Beethoven: Marmotte (J. W. von Goethe)
G. F. Händel: Ombra mai fu
E. Grieg: Solveigs sang​
Finnish Folk Songs
P. Laaksonen: Täällä pohjantähdenalla
F. Linnavuori: Minä laulan sun iltasi tähtihin
S. Ranta: Kansansävelmä (P. Mustapää)
L. Madeoja: Suksimiesten laulu (J. Krohn)
E. Melartin: Mirjamin laulu II (E. Leino)
E. Melartin: Leivo (A. Rahkonen)
Choir
C. Franck: Panis Angelicus
E. Kauppi: Suvi-illan vieno tuuli
Classical Ballet
a hobby dancer since 2004
For over twenty years ballet has been (almost) my whole world, and therefore, has fundamentally shaped who I am as an artist and a woman: someone dedicated to beauty, exellence and imagination through movement. I even utilized dance in my design thesis back in 2023 which you can read here.
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Moreover, most of my dance training was done in Kuopio Conservatory where I studied ballet as my major and contemporary as my minor between 2009 and 2019. After spending couple of years dancing under few different teacher in Hämeenlinna, in 2023 I returned to my old school as an adult ballet student where I currently continue my dance journey.
Recently on Stage
Valse of the Winter Roses (2026)
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at Winter Chamber Festival
Choreography: Harriet Jeffery
Dancers: Kuopio Conservatory Adult Ballet
Peace (2025)
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at Kuopio Dance Festival
Choreography: Harriet Jeffery
Dancers: Kuopio Conservatory Adult Ballet
Music: Bach, Air on the G-String