In this book I invite you to play with the Universe and to follow the signs that lead you to your truth, peace, and freedom.
Through stories, ideas, inspiration, and practical guidance, I show you how to take steps to be fully present and to know yourself on a deeper level.
My name is Ulla Suokko, and I am available for creative concerts, performing music that ranges from classical to contemporary, from romantic and popular repertoire to children’s programs, and extending to concerts designed for healing, transformation, and the expansion of consciousness.
I am happy to create a custom-designed talk, class, or workshop for you, covering topics from the art of performing and conquering stage fright to recognizing the signs of the Universe, following our hearts, and having the courage to dream big!
Ulla Suokko is an improviser and a cosmopolitan shaman who creates a sacred, sensual, and joyous soundscape to invoke, inspire, and awaken. The audience plays an important role in these works through voice, breath, and movement.
The internationally acclaimed Finnish performing artist, workshop leader, and transformation expert Ulla Suokko has brought her music and stories to the world’s most prestigious concert halls as well as to the humblest remote villages, where her art and presence touches hearts with equal power and meaning.
Music has taken her across almost all of Europe and the United States, as well as to more distant countries such as Mongolia, Japan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Egypt. She made her official New York debut at Carnegie Hall as the winner of the Artists International Auditions.
Dr. Suokko earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Juilliard School, where her doctoral thesis explored Music and Rhetoric in the Baroque, demonstrating how the art of oration was adapted to make music more communicative and persuasive.
After many years living first in New York City as a freelance concert artist and later in the Peruvian Andes—where she gave master classes for young Peruvian musicians, inspired audiences throughout the country, and led creativity workshops for schoolteachers as well as presentations for audiences of all ages—she now resides in her native Finland and continues to travel worldwide for inspiring opportunities.
| Her flute recital was not a recital in the traditional sense: it was a theatrical presentation, a scientific study, an essay of meditation, a frolic, a history lesson, an exploration of the unexplored, and a reinventing of not just what the flute family can do, but how the heart, mind, body and soul can communicate through its seductive overtones… |
| And now we as the audience know that somehow, Ulla has played us as well. It is an experience of wholeness–drinking these pure holy sounds.
We find ourselves breathless, expanded, and transformed. |
| Dear Ulla, You made me see that your Light, Fire, Sensuality, Magic, Humor, Talent, Human Vulnerability, Humility, Love, Joy, Surrender and Hope is a part of me as well. |
| But look out Fiona Shaw: Ulla Suokko is a convincing actress, a prophet, a poet, and … oh yes, she also plays the flute, doesn’t she? |
