Tara Valkonen
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Tara Valkonen’s career in music began with starting to play cello at the age of six, and soon she was imagining her future as a professional cellist – and a sculptor. But picking up her elder brother’s guitar at the age of 13 brought a change, and although she didn’t abandon cello playing, it was rock music now that became the main interest in her life for some years, all until she attended a concert where Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie conquered her mind making her passionately interested in modern and contemporary art music.
Tara’s studies and work have been kindly supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Sibelius Academy Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Greta and William Lehtinen Foundation and MES (The Finnish Music Foundation).
