Emma Hartikainen is a Finnish soprano, appreciated for her bright soprano voice with excellent carrying power and her ability to create compelling interpretations with her natural musicality and instinctive manner of singing. Her artistic values are defined by originality, sincerity, curiosity, boldness and passion. Having gained recognition with multiple artistic awards and competition prizes, she is strongly establishing herself as one of the rising talents of the new generation of opera singers in Finland. In 2025, she was awarded with the 2nd Prize in the Lappeenranta National Singing Competition, the Bayreuth Scholarship by the Finnish Wagner Society & Richard-Wagner-Stipendienstiftung as well as the Young Artist of the Year prize awarded by her birth town Lapinlahti. 

She has appeared as a soloist with many orchestras across Finland, including Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Police Symphonic Band and the Joensuu City Orchestra and performed in several leading roles in the productions of the Sibelius Academy Opera, including the Countess (Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro), Frau Fluth (Nicolai: The Merry Wives of Windsor), Lady Dunmow (Berkeley: A Dinner Engagement) and A Lady with a Cake Box (Argento: Postcard from Morocco). With her long-term collaborator pianist Tanja Niiranen, she performs regularly in Finland and Europe.