Finnish violinist Petteri Iivonen joins the stringed instrument faculty as violin teacher
The Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP) has announced the appointment of Petteri Iivonen as a violin teacher in its department of classical and contemporary instrumental disciplines, starting at the beginning of the 2025/26 academic year.
Finnish violinist Iivonen is currently first solo violin of the Paris National Opera Orchestra, a role he has held since 2019. He was silver medallist and special prize-winner at the 10th International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in 2010, and won the National Violin Competition in Kuopio, Finland, in 2005.
Iivonen has performed as a soloist with all the major orchestras in Finland, and has made numerous appearances with orchestra worldwide, including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie and Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
He has appeared in concerts at the Museé du Louvre in Paris, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Tokyo Opera, Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, the Jerusalem Theatre, and the Kodály Centre in Hungary.
Chamber music collaborators have included Matti Salminen, Nobuko Imai, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Michel Lethiec, Lilli Paasikivi, Clive Greensmith, Atar Arad, Monica Groop, Frans Helmerson, Michaela Martin, Arto Noras, Regis Pasquier, Paul Neubauer, Martin Beaver and the Emerson, Michelangelo and Tokyo string quartets.
The news follows the recent announcement of viola da gambist Lucie Boulanger to the Paris Conservatoire’s ancient music department.
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