Several of her works exhibit, in a deeply instinctive way, an organic, innovative dialogue between these two traditions – an example being the title work of her acclaimed disc Into the Woodland Silence. Tarkiainen’s music is frequently performed abroad and has been dubbed to draw on the immensity of the northern natural environment. As if an evidence of this, her recent orchestral song cycle <a href="https://core.musicfinland.fi/works/eanan-gida-nieida" target="_blank">The Earth, Spring’s Daughter</a>, inspired by the Sami poetry, was commissioned by the three northernmost orchestras of Europe.</p>