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Toumas Kantelinen FINLAND - Winner of Harpa Award 2013 for The Purge

Film music composer Tuomas Kantelinen studied classical composing in his native Finland and continues to make music for both cinema and concert audiences.
He has scored orchestral film music for over 40 feature films, including Sergei Bodrov's Genghis Khan biopic "Mongol" Peter Flinth's Crusade saga "Arn, the Knight Templar", Klaus Haro's awarded "Mother of Mine", Renny Harlin's dark thriller "Mindhunters" and Greek mythology epic "The Legend of Hercules". 
On the classical music side Tuomas has composed an opera, several concertos and two ballets: "The Snow Queen" and "The Little Mermaid", both commissioned by the Finnish National Opera and Ballet. 
Toumas also composed the opera about Mannerheim for the Ilmajoki Music Festival, premiered in 2017 - the hundredth anniversary of Finland as an independent republic.



Latest Works

2020 Ming tian ni shi fou yi ran ai wo

2020 Shoot for the Moon (Documentary) 

2019 Marras (Short) (music by)

2019 The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

2019 Iron Sky: The Coming Race (music by)



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      • 2019 composers
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    • 2017 WHAT HAPPENED >
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