Leif Rosas

Charlotta Westerback

Charlotta Westerback is studying at the Sibelius Academy. She began her viola playing at the East Helsinki Music School at the age of 7 with Tiina Konttinen. She was accepted to the Sibelius Academy’s Youth Department in 2016, where her teachers were Teemu Kupiainen and Pirkko Simojoki. Professional studies Charlotta started in 2018 at the Academy and continued with Pirkko Simojoki. Westerback has taken part in numerous master courses, getting guidance from Yuval Gotlibovich, Atte Kilpeläinen, Garth Knox, Lilli Maijala and Tabea Zimmermann. Charlotta Westerback performed as a soloist with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in their Young Soloist Concert in 2019. She has been a soloist also in the Unga solister concert with Wegelius Chamber Orchestra and with Voluntas Chamber Orchestra at Jorma Panula’s homeplace. Charlotta is an active chamber and orchestra musician. She has taken part in the popular summer concert series in Tammisaari as a member of the Finnish Chamber Orchestra’s Youth program. She has played in the Concertgebouw Orchestra as part of the Side by Side project, in the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra’s viola section, Wegelius Chamber Ensemble and in the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra’s the Orchestra Academy. Westerback has been kindly sponsored by Pro Music Foundation and the Wegelius Foundation. Charlotta Westerback plays Joannes Florenus Guidantus viola from 1737 owned by the OP Art Foundation.