Lotta Annukka Wennäkoski (born Helsinki, 8 February 1970) is a Finnish composer.
[1] Wennäkoski studied the violin at the Béla Bartók Secondary Grammar and Technical School of Music in Budapest, Hungary between 1989–1990 and music theory and composition at the Sibelius Academy between 1994 and 2000 under Eero Hämeenniemi, Kaija Saariaho and Paavo Heininen and in the Royal Conservatory of The Hague between 1998 and 1999 under Louis Andriessen.
A major landmark on her career was a concert at the Musica Nova Helsinki festival in 1999.
[4] As a composer, Wennäkoski has been described as a lyricist[5] and a lyrical Modernist and post-Expressionist,[6] and she has described herself as "often navigating in an area between exciting timbral qualities and more conventional gestures like melodic fragments".
[7] Wennäkoski acted as the artistic director of the Tampere Biennale festival in 2008 and 2010, as the composer-in-residence of the Tapiola Sinfonietta during the season 2010–2011 and designed the program of the Avanti!