Finnish composer Asta Hyvärinen has described her composition style with the term “surrealist-cubism”. This means that the structures are based on the surrealistic (subconscious) process and the sonic details appearance as cubistic. She uses also the term “whole tonality” that means of equality of any kind of sounding material (chromatic; micro tonal; noises & any kind of unpitched sounds). Most of her works composed during past 20 years are some kind of cross-sections of a shattering world. 

Asta has been worked as a freelance composer since mid 80’s, and as a full time composer since 2000. Her list of works contains nowadays more than 120 composition which has been performed widely in Europe and also in Canada, Americas and Asia. 

Astas compositions has been awarded several composition competitions such as          MasterpieceManagement2016 (work “One Vision”), 1st Prize.
Ars Poetica Composers Competition 2003, ( work “Obscure Contours”).
Second International Forum for the Young Composers 2002-2003, (work “Obscure Contours”).              PanAccordion-2000 Competition, (work “Ehiknosdeux”)                                                                                                   NewTune-Competition, 1997, (work “Approche”)

Asta has been studied composition with Tapio Nevanlinna, Jukka Tiensuu, Helmut Lachenmann and Brian Ferneyhough among many others. She’s been studied also musicology in the University of Turku and percussion instruments in classical and pop-jazz field.

As a drummer/percussionist she’s been performed numerous jazz and ethnic music festivals in Finland during 80’s and 90’s and the most recently she plays percussions in her own projects.

Asta Hyvärinen currently working with the support of The Finnish Cultural Foundation.