Jonathan Nikkinen

Jonathan Nikkinen

Jonathan Nikkinen studied the French horn at the Hyvinkää Music Institute in southern Finland and at the Sibelius Academy under such teachers as Tero Toivonen, Erja Joukamo-Ampuja and Jukka Harju. From 2016–2017 he joined an exchange programme with the University of Barcelona, where he was a pupil of Professor José Vicente Castelló. Nikkinen has played in the Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic, Avanti! and Orkester Norden, and he performed as a soloist in the RSP Young Soloists concerts in 2013. Nikkinen also plays chamber music, frequently and across genres. The wind quintet Helmikvintet and Santeri Halme & Auringonlaskun ratsastajat light orchestra are the ensembles he regularly plays with.

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