I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

He has had works commissioned by the Kronos Quartet and has also written 6 operas 8 symphonies concertos for violin cello flute horn and english horn as well as several chamber works. Aulis Sallinen (born April 9 1935 in Salmi) is a Finnish contemporary classical music composer. He studied at the Sibelius Academy where his teachers included Joonas Kokkonen.