Pekka Kuusisto

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Pekka Kuusisto (born in 1976 in Espoo, Finland) is a classical violin virtuoso.

Pekka Kuusisto began studying the violin at the ripe old age of three. His first violin teacher was Geza Szilvay at the East Helsinki Music Institute. In 1983 he enrolled in the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He began to study there with Tuomas Haapanen in 1985. He studied with Miriam Fried and Paul Biss at the Indiana University School of Music from 1962 to 1996.

In 1995 Pekka Kuusisto became the first Finn to win the International Sibelius Violin Competition and was also awarded a special prize for the best performance of the Sibelius Violin Concerto. He has won other prizes, has concertized widely and recorded works for the Ondine label. Pekka Kuusisto plays a 1702 Stradivarius violin.

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