Tuulia Hero is the violinist for the London-based Paddington Trio, an active concert violinist and improviser, and Professor of Violin at the Royal Northern College of Music.
Tuulia has received first prizes in several prestigious competitions, most recently the 2023 Parkhouse Award and the 70th Royal Over-Seas League Competition. As a Domselaer Artist Management, Kirckman Concert Society and City Music Foundation Artist, her concerts have taken her everywhere in the United Kingdom, around Europe, and to Northern America. In the 2024/25 season, the Paddington Trio played over 60 concerts in the Netherlands, Northern America, Germany, Spain, France, and Italy, as well as returning to the Kuhmo and West Cork Chamber Music Festivals.
Tuulia graduated with her Bachelor’s degree from the violin class of Janne Malmivaara, having simultaneously been studying at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London as recipient of the Eduard and Marianna Loeser Scholarship and graduated with Distinction from the violin and improvisation classes of Levon Chilingirian and David Dolan with her Masters in Performance.
Tuulia plays a Goffriller violin from 1676, kindly lent to her by the Beare’s International Violin Society. She has been generously supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Martin Wegelius Foundation, Pro Musica Foundation, and the Finnish Music Foundation.
Photo Clara Evens Photography