Neea Lamminmäki is a (folk) musician, pedagogue, and doctoral researcher at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland. Born in Kaustinen, she is a Näppäri folk music educator holding a master of music from the Sibelius Academy. In music education, her particular interest is in inclusive intergenerational teaching of local folk music traditions. As a piano teacher, she specialises in improvisation and free accompaniment skills at the piano school she established in 2019. As a musician, she is known as an expressive player of a traditional instrument used in Finnish folk music, the pump organ.