Kare Ollinen (b. 1966) is a musician, a musical multi-talented person and music arranger with a long career.

Ollinen draws on his experience as a musician when arranging, particularly in creating entertaining and groovy music for various choirs and vocal ensembles, while also incorporating more traditional arrangements.

Ollinen’s arrangements have been commissioned and performed by, among others, YL Male Voice Choir,  EMO Ensemble, Cantores Minores, Cassiopeia, Turun NMKYn Mieskuoro Naskalit, the Finnish Male Choir Association, Finnish Swedish Male Singers Association, and dozens of vocal and small ensembles.

YL Male Voice Choir has also made a music video for the arrangement of Ollinen’s Leevi and the Leavings’ “Pimeä tie, mukavaa matkaa”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlhp66TE3kE&list=RDVlhp66TE3kE&start_radio=1

The mixed choir Cassiopeia has also made a music video for the arrangement of Ollinen’s PMMP piece “Mummola”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUNJ0DWC4No