Maaria Pulakka graduated with a Master of Music degree from the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki in 2024. She has also studied in Frankfurt through the Erasmus program and participated in numerous masterclasses, including the Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music and studies with Emmanuel Ceysson.
She performs regularly with orchestras in Finland and abroad, including the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Turku Philharmonic, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, and the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra. Maaria is also an active chamber musician and a founding member of Trio Fracta Manu, which specializes in contemporary music.
In addition to the modern concert harp, she plays a small electroacoustic harp and a triple-row Baroque harp—currently mostly for her own enjoyment, though she welcomes opportunities to deepen her skills with these instruments. In 2023, she appeared as a stage musician in Michael Baran’s play Young Idealists at the Finnish National Theatre.
Maaria is especially passionate about contemporary music and about building a more just and equal world—both within the arts and beyond. She aspires to work across artistic boundaries as broadly and freely as possible.