{"id":33,"date":"2024-06-06T11:16:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T09:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cantinovum.fi\/homepage\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2026-03-08T21:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:40:07","slug":"rita-varonen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cantinovum.fi\/homepage\/en\/rita-varonen\/","title":{"rendered":"Rita Varonen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rita Varonen has been the artistic director of Cantinovum since 1993. Under her guidance Cantinovum has established itself among Finland's leading choirs performing newer choral music.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Varonen graduated as a choral conductor from the Liszt Academy in Budapest in 1987. She also holds a degree in wind orchestra conducting and has studied singing. Varonen studied choral conducting under Istv\u00e1n P\u00e1rkai and P\u00e9ter Erdei and has participated in courses led by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Heltay, T\u00f5nu Kaljuste, Jorma Panula, and Stefan Sk\u00f6ld. Currently, Varonen works as a lecturer, teaching choral and orchestral conducting, and is a sought-after choral conducting trainer worldwide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Career<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Rita Varonen has conducted choir and orchestra concerts across Europe and the United States and has appeared in radio and TV broadcasts both in Finland and abroad. Her choirs have recorded and won awards in both national and international competitions. In addition to Cantinovum, she conducts Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4n Naislaulajat and the wind orchestra Aalto. Varonen served as the artistic director of the Finnish Women's Choir Association from 2007 to 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Awards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Rita Varonen was awarded the Harald Anders\u00e9n Prize by the Finnish Cultural Foundation in 1996 for her significant contributions to Finnish choral culture. In the same year, she also received the conductor's prize at the national women's choir review in Kokkola. In the international Mariele Ventre choral conducting competition held in Italy in October 2001, Varonen placed second. The Finnish Choral Conductors' Association named Varonen Choral Conductor of the Year in 2004. In 2009, Varonen was named the best choral conductor at the Slovakia Cantat choir competition and the ABB Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica choir competition. In 2012, the Finnish Singers and Musicians Association Sulasol awarded Varonen the Klemetti Prize for her distinguished work with choirs and choral singing. Varonen was awarded the Gold decorations from Sekakuoroliitto, finnish mixed choir union in the year 2018 and Naiskuoroliitto - finnish women choir union in the year 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rita Varonen on toiminut Cantinovumin taiteellisena johtajana vuodesta 1993 l\u00e4htien. Varosen ohjauksessa Cantinovum on vakiinnuttanut asemansa Suomen johtavien, uutta musiikkia esitt\u00e4vien kuorojen joukossa. Tausta Varonen on valmistunut diplomikuoronjohtajaksi Budapestin Liszt-Akatemiasta vuonna 1987. Lis\u00e4ksi h\u00e4n on suorittanut tutkinnon puhallinorkesterinjohdosta ja opiskellut laulua. Kuoronjohtoa Varonen on opiskellut Istv\u00e1n P\u00e1rkain ja P\u00e9ter Erdein johdolla sek\u00e4 osallistunut muun muassa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cantinovum.fi\/homepage\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cantinovum.fi\/homepage\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cantinovum.fi\/homepage\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cantinovum.fi\/homepage\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cantinovum.fi\/homepage\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cantinovum.fi\/homepage\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/www.cantinovum.fi\/homepage\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cantinovum.fi\/homepage\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}