Neea Lamminmäki is a (folk) musician, pedagogue, and researcher at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland. In music education, her current doctoral project is titled "Intergenerational Näppäri music education promoting socio-cultural sustainability in Finland". The Finnish Cultural Foundation funds the research. Lamminmäki's research interests include inclusive and intergenerational folk music pedagogy. She has contributed to scholarly discussions on sociocultural sustainability at international academic conferences and networks for Nordic performing arts and European music school research.

 

Lamminmäki is also a musician and pedagogue holding a Master of Music from the Sibelius Academy. As a musician, she has an extensive career as a performing artist with piano and pump organ, a traditional instrument used in Finnish folk music. As a piano and folk music ensemble teacher, Lamminmäki has broad teaching experience from Finnish music schools. Born and raised in the famous folk music town of Kaustinen, she also teaches pianists to play the pump organs in the Näppäri music courses. As a piano school founder, Lamminmäki specialises in improvisation, creativity, and free accompaniment in various musical styles taught at Kulju Piano School she founded in 2019. The school is currently on hold during the research project.