British soprano Olivia Moss is currently working towards her master’s degree in Vocal Arts at the Sibelius Academy, under the tutelage of Outi Kähkönen. Moss was awarded Second Prize in the Helsinki Lied Competition 2021, alongside her duo partner Kumi Shimozaki and she was a finalist in the Boosey &…
Anu Magga is a Sami reindeer farmer, entrepreneur, and artist who holds traditional Sami joik and storytelling close to her heart. Magga has performed joik since her school days, and she sought to enhance her storytelling skills with a degree from the Lapland University as a Story Master. In addition…
Pianist Martin Malmgren has made himself known as a versatile performer, equally at home on stage as a soloist, a chamber musician, and a lied pianist. With an unusually wide repertoire ranging from early baroque up until the music of our times, he takes delight in surprising his audiences by…
Tenor Juho Punkeri has gathered his reputation with his powerful interpretations of both lied and baroque works. His multifaceted musical background and beautiful, lyrical vocal color has made him a desired and respected artist. He strives for sincere, authentic and nuanced artistry that draws from texts and poems. As soloist…
Saara Särkimäki began her studies at the Sibelius Academy in 2015, and graduated with her bachelor’s degree in 2018. There, she studied in the classes of Tuomas Ylinen, Tuomas Lehto, and Martti Rousi. In 2019, Särkimäki was an exchange student at the Universität der Künst in Berlin, where she was…
Teuvo Taimioja is a multifaceted guitarist, who wants to explore musical surfaces and possibilities in different styles. Taimioja has played concerts in events such as WhatEverWorks-festival, Tampering festival, Joutsentanssi, Oulu’s Guitar Festival, Joensuun kitarakevät, KitaraNova-festival and UNM-festival, the last of which the Finnish National Broadcasting Company recorded. He is founder…
Known as a versatile musician with strong roots in chamber music, Tomas Djupsjöbacka is the founding cellist of the string quartet Meta4 as well as a member of the renowned Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Since his conducting debut in 2013 with the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Djupsjöbacka has appeared with most…
Violinist Malin Broman is a respected and in-demand violin soloist, artistic director, chamber musician, teacher, and orchestra leader. She is a founding member of the Kungsbacka piano trio, which has performed in, among others, Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, Wien Konzerthaus, and the Cologne and Berlin Philharmonie halls. Broman was a member of…
Kotka-born Essi Höglund is a young violinist, who has already appeared on concert stages all over Finland and the world. She appears often as both a solo and chamber artist and is also a sought-after orchestral musician. Höglund has appeared as a soloist with numerous Finnish orchestras, such as the…
Hilda Kunnola started playing the harp at the Turku Conservatory at the age of 9 and has spent her childhood in Kuusisto in the Turku archipelago. Having completed her studies with Päivi Severeide at the Sibelius Academy’s Youth Department in 2014-2019, she later on graduated from the Sibelius Academy with…
