Silver Medalist and Special Prize winner at the 10th International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition, Petteri Iivonen has been First Solo Violin at the Paris Opera since 2019.Highlights of Petteri Iivonen’s career include his appearances with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Sudwestdutsche Philharmonie, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Helena Symphony Orchestra, Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia in Belgium, New York Classical Symphony Orchestra, New European Ensemble, as well as the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed as a soloist with all the leading orchestras in Finland.He has also been heard in concerts at the Museé du Louvre in Paris, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Tokyo Opera, Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, the Jerusalem Theatre, and the Kodaly Center in Hungary. In 2010, he performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto under the baton of Zubin Mehta.As a devoted chamber musician, Petteri Iivonen performs regularly with artists such as Matti Salminen, Nobuko Imai, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Michel Lethiec, Lilli Paasikivi, Clive Greensmith, Atar Arad, Monica Groop, Frans Helmerson, Michaela Martin, Arto Noras, Regis Pasquier, Paul Neubauer, Martin Beaver, and the strings quartets Emerson, Michelangelo and Tokyo.Yarlung Records released his debut recordings in 2009, featuring works by Bach, Brahms, Debussy, Franck, Ysaÿe and David Lefkowitz’s “Eli Eli” (2008) dedicated to Petteri Iivonen.Petteri Iivonen plays a 1755 G. B. Guadagnini through the generosity of the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

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