Jonathan Roozeman

Jonathan Roozeman

Cellist Jonathan Roozeman, born in 1997, studies at the Sibelius Academy (Youth Academy) with Professor Martti Rousi. He reached the semi-finals and won a special prize in the Turku Cello Competition in 2010 and the Paulo Cello Competition in Helsinki in 2013. In 2012 he came second in the National Cello Competition in Amsterdam, in which he was the youngest ever to take part. Coming sixth in the international Tchaikovsky Competition resulted in numerous solo concerts and recitals. Roozeman was also the first Finn to reach the final round of the prestigious Naumburg Competition, in New York in 2015. He has played as soloist with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the St Petersburg Philharmonic, and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Since 2010, Roozeman has been playing a good deal of chamber music at various festivals and has attended several masterclasses. He plays an Italian David Tecchler cello from 1707, provided by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

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