Antikainen Beata

THE ARTISTS

BEATA ANTIKAINEN

Cello

She is currently a member of the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker, where her mentor is Olaf Maninger. She studied at the Hochschule für Musik ’Hanns Eisler’ in Berlin with Claudio Bohorquez and in the Sibelius Academy with Marko Ylönen. Antikainen is a prize winner of the Finnish National Turku Cello Competition, the international Rubinstein Competition and the Pirazzi Competition. She is the artistic director of the Hvitträsk Chamber Music Festival in Finland. As a soloist she has played with such orchestras as the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Helsinki Ensemble and Baden Baden Philharmonia. She has received scholarships from the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the Pro Musica Foundation and the Wegelius foundation. She was a guest of the Anton Stadler Association, with the string quintet of the Berliner Philharmoniker, as part of the ARTango&Jazz Festival, XIII edition 2022.

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