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…
Violist Saara Kurki has graduated with a master’s in music from the Stockholm Royal Conservatory in Edsberg, where she studied with Malin Broman. At the moment, she is continuing her studies at the Sibelius Academy with Atte Kilpeläinen and performing as a freelance musician around Finland. Kurki has worked as…
Born in Kuopio, violist Vuokko Lahtinen has recently completed a master’s in music from the Sibelius Academy and is finishing her studies at the University of the Arts, Berlin as a student of Wilfried Strehle. She has previously studied at the Paris and Helsinki Conservatories, as well as in Jorma…
Laura Martin is a very versatile musician. She likes to think of herself as a multi-faceted artist, on one side the classical cellist, and on the other side the artist working with different art forms and reflecting on society. Her latest performance mixing different art fields was “Concordia”, a Butoh…
Joonas Pekonen is a versatile young violinist currently residing in London. He enjoys an active freelance career in the UK, and is a regular guest with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Northern Sinfonia and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Born in Finland, Pekonen attended the Sibelius…
Conductor and composer Elisar Riddelin is currently pursuing a master’s degree in conducting at The Royal College of Music in Stockholm with professor Tommy B. Andersson. He has also studied conducting in Germany at Hochschule für Music Würzburg with Professor Ari Rasilainen and at Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with Professor…
