Petri Aarnio

Petri Aarnio

First chair of the New Helsinki Quartet has been a member of Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra’s since 1991 and their concertmaster since 1996. Aarnio is also a member of the Trio Ad Libitum. He has been working as a concertmaster also for Finnish Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra Kerberos. Aarnio has performed as a chamber musician and soloist around Europe, the United States, South America, and Japan. Petri Aarnio begun his violin studies at the East Helsinki Music school with Géza Szilvay and continued his studies at the Sibelius Academy with Lajos Garam. He studied at the Juilliard School in New York with Dorothy Delay and Joel Smirnoff, and did his violin diploma there in 1988. Later, he finished his degree at the Sibelius Academy in 1989. Petri Aarnio has been a teacher at the Sibelius Academy since 2000.

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