BIOGRAPHY

 

Having started playing the violin at the age of three, Kasmir Uusitupa's study path has gone through the Itä-Helsinki Music College and the youth department of the Sibelius Academy to professional studies at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts, the Paris Conservatory and the Swiss International Menuhin Academy, with Kaija Saarikettu, Lauri Untamala, Olivier Charlier, Oleg Kaskiv and Maxim Vengerov as the most important teachers.

 

Uusitupa's background as a musician includes a generous dose of folk music, which he grew up with while making music with his family. Interest in different genres and improvisation has remained an important part of his musicianship. In addition to his fast-growing soloist and chamber music duties, he visits many orchestras as concertmaster.