Joel Järventausta

Joel Järventausta is a Finnish composer, born in 1995. He spent his childhood in Luxembourg and Germany and studied in Britain: at the University of York, at the Royal College of Music in London, and at King’s College London, where he took a doctorate in composition under George Benjamin. He is now based in Finland and works as a freelance composer. In 2019 he won first prize in the Île de Créations competition of the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France with Ripped Tapestry, and third prize in the Alexander Zemlinsky composition competition. He took part in the London Symphony Orchestra’s Panufnik Composers’ Scheme in 2018/19, which led to the orchestral piece Sunfall, first performed by the LSO in 2022. His titles often point to nature, painting and poetry.