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Elina Vähälä

Violinist Elina Vähälä has a large repertory that emphasizes contemporary music. She performed at the 2008 Nobel Prize ceremony. Vähälä was born on October 15, 1975, in Iowa City, Iowa, but returned to Finland with her parents as a small child. She took up the violin at age three, studying at the Lahti Conservatory; there, she studied with Seppo Reinikainen and Pertti Sutinen, and at the Kuhmo Violin School, her teachers were Zinaida Gilels, Ilya Grubert, and Pavel Vernikov. At 12, she made her debut with the Lathi Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Osmo Vänskä. During the 1993-1994 season, she served as Young Master Soloist with the Lahti Symphony, and she has continued to collaborate with that group frequently, performing concertos on tour in Sweden, Britain, South America, and Central Europe. Vähälä went on to the Sibelius Academy, where her teacher was Tuomas Haapanen. She was a winner at the 1999 Young Concert Artists competition in New York, and she gave her New York debut at the 92nd Street Y that year. Vähälä has appeared with major orchestras around Scandinavia and beyond, including the Houston Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, appearing as far afield as China, Korea, and South America. Her repertory is large and includes a prominent slice devoted to contemporary music; she gave world premieres of the Chamber Concerto of Aulis Sallinen and the Double Concerto of Curtis Curtis-Smith, both of which were written for Vähälä and her ex-husband Ralf Gothóni. Vähälä gave the Scandinavian premiere of John Corigliano's The Red Violin and commissioned a concerto from composer Jaakko Kuusisto; she made her recording debut in 2013 on the BIS label with those two concertos. In 2015, she performed the original and more difficult version of Sibelius' Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47, becoming just the third violinist to play the work. She recorded several albums for the CPO and Audite labels, returning to BIS in 2023 for a recording of Kalevi Aho's Violin Concerto with the Kymi Sinfonietta. Vähälä is a founding member of Finland's Violin Academy Master Class Project and taught at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold and at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe before becoming professor of violin at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunist in Vienna in the the autumn of 2019.
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