Lina Teir (FIN/FRA) is a multi-instrumentalist (violin, piano, guitar, accordion, saxophone), composer, and performance artist known for blending music and storytelling into powerful, emotionally engaging experiences. Lina Teir creates poetic and thought-provoking works solo and in crossdisciplinary collaborations that explore personally political themes. As a director and playwright specialised in musical storytelling, she crafts site-specific, participatory, and immersive performances, inviting the audience into the story's heart.
Her unique combination of musical craft and narrative depth makes her a standout voice in contemporary performance. Listen to some of Lina Teir´s music here.
Lina Teir is performing her song “Roots and wings” in an arrangement for 10 musicians in Ulrika Eleonora church in her hometown Kristinestad, Finland during her site-specific concert with the same name in July 2025. Singing in English and speaking in her mother tongue, an ancient Swedish dialect spoken only locally on the west coast of Finland, she tells about birds that are free to come and go and to fly over boarders to the children in Gaza and Ukraine.
Projects 2026
Lina Teir is composing music for female choirs, arranging her music for string quartet, producing playful feminist folk punk and performing solo with four instruments, songs and stories. She is also involved in various musical performances as a dramaturg and director. She is translating the musical Grease including 23 songs to Närpes dialect, to be played by Närpes Teater (FIN) summer 2027.
Lina Teir is giving master classes on musical storytelling, live experience direction and socially engaged songwriting and can be booked for teaching online or IRL.