Lotta Hagfors
Artist biography
Lotta Hagfors
Lotta Hagfors (Charlotta Hagfors) graduated with a Master's degree in Music from the international Nordic Master in Folk Music programme at the Sibelius Academy of Arts in 2017, majoring in vocal performance.
Hagfors has been working as an international artist since her student days and has been involved in high-level workshops in both music and performing arts. Among others. In 2018, she was involved in the dance production "Cracks on the Island" by Osiris Theatre, and in 2017, "Our Legacy" at the Open Doors Theatre, where he was a composer and performer. Hagfors has worked in multicultural teams in international arenas, with the Young Music Caravan project in Berlin in 2004 and 2007, and with the Blink band, with whom he completed an 18-concert tour of Europe and the United States in 2011.
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​Lotta has been a musician in the professional rhythm music orchestra Laitakaupungin Orchestra, supported by the Arts Promotion Centre of Finland. Other ensembles include the contemporary folk music ensemble Kasvu, which she founded in 2021, the Iles-Hagfors-Rauhala trio and the vocal ensemble Ilo Ensemble, which won the acoustic category of the Tampere International Vocal festival in 2017. She has also appeared as a musical saw player in the Avanti! orchestra and done co-operation with The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Lotta Hagfors is a versatile singer, folk musician, composer and performer.
Lotta has been commissioned by the Philomela Choir and the Folk Big Band of the Sibelius Academy, which chose Maria, Maiden of the North for its Etno-Emmy award-winning album in 2015.
Even though her speciality is contemporary folk music, her musical field of interest covers singing in all of its many forms, as well as vocal improvisation. Open mind and freedom are the things she most cherishes in all music. Her love of discovery and blending art forms has led her to perform and compose several theatre and dance productions.
Part of her freelancer life Hagfors has also been working as a music journalist and continuity announcer at Finnish National Broadcasting Company Yle Radio 1, as well as a narrator and voice actor for several short films and audiobooks.
Currently she works as a singer and performer in the Alizé show by Cirque du Soleil in Berlin.