Kirill Kozlovski (b. 1981 in Mogilev) is a pianist and Lecturer at the Sibelius Academy. He studied piano at the Lyceum of the Belarusian State Academy of Music, the Sibelius Academy, and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and baroque music and harpsichord at Novia University of Applied Sciences and the Sibelius Academy. In 2017, he completed a Doctor of Music degree at the Sibelius Academy’s DocMus unit, focusing on the contextualization of Dmitri Shostakovich’s music.
Kozlovski has released several acclaimed recordings, including Richard Wagner’s complete solo songs with soprano Jenni Lättilä (Siba Records), the solo album Shostakovich in Context (Pilfink Records), and Yuri Shaporin’s complete piano works (Toccata Classics). In 2024–2025, Toccata Classics released a complete recording of Toivo Kuula’s solo songs performed by Kozlovski and Lättilä.
He has performed in major European concert halls and as a soloist with numerous Finnish orchestras. Kozlovski is also an active recital pianist and a dedicated interpreter of contemporary music.
Janne Malmivaara is among Finland’s leading violinists and violin pedagogues. He is a versatile musician who performs regularly both as a chamber musician and as a soloist. He has appeared at festivals such as the Turku Music Festival, Kaakko Chamber Music Festival, Nagu Music Days, Nurmes Young Music Festival, and Lemi Music Days. As a soloist, he has performed with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Seinäjoki City Orchestra.
Malmivaara served as a lecturer at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences from 2003 to 2006 and at the Sibelius Academy from 2006 to 2011, where he continues to work as an hourly teacher. He has been a senior lecturer in violin at the Turku Conservatory since 2010. In 2015, he began his position as lecturer in violin at the Helsinki Conservatory.
Sirkka Parviainen graduated from the vocal department of Sibelius Academy in Helsinki where she studied under the legendary professors Liisa Linko-Malmio and Ritva Auvinen. She gave her well received Lieder debut in 2000. Success in national and international competitions such as the Kangasniemi and Pentti Koskimies competitions in Finland and the Vienna Belvedere and Korean Voice competitions launched her career as well in Europe as in the North.
The leading female role of Pamina in the Magic Flute by Mozart marked her debut at the Finnish National Opera and was soon to continue with impressive interpretations of other major roles like Countess in the Marriage of Figaro, Lady Billows in Albert Herring, Mimi in La Boheme and Micaela in Carmen leading to the magnificent role of Riitta in the Last Temptations by Joonas Kokkonen.
Sirkka is a well sought after soloist, her repertory covering major works with choir and orchestra. As a recitalist she has performed in most European countries, USA and Scandinavia besides her native Finland. Sirkka is a master of multiple genres from the classical period all the way to contemporary rhythm music, making her programs most colorful and exciting.
Sirkka’s impressive pedagogical skills manifest themselves in the finals of singing competitions in Finland and abroad as well as in the number of professional engagements of her students. She was the leader of the vocal department of the Sibelius Academy from 2014 to 2020 and is currently holding a tenure position in the University of Arts as a lecturer of vocal music.
Mikael Kemppainen studied the piano at the Sibelius Academy, first under the guidance of Minna Pöllänen, and later with professor Liisa Pohjola. He supplemented his studies through numerous master classes in Finland and abroad (Hungary, Estonia, Russia, Austria, France, the Netherlands, Luxemburg). At the Sibelius Academy, he also studied chamber music with Ralf Gothóni and lied with Ilmo Ranta and Hartmut Höll.
Mikael Kemppainen has been awarded in many piano and chamber music competitions, for instance first prize in the Jyväskylä Piano Competition in 2001. After these triumphs, he has appeared as soloist with several orchestras, and at festivals such as the Naantali and Turku Music Festivals, Helsinki Festival, Espoo Piano Week, Kuhmo Chamber Music and the ”Young Prize-Winners” concert series of the Berlin PianoForum congress. Additionally, he has made radio recordings for YLE.
Nowadays, Kemppainen works as a lecturer of accompaniment at the Turku Conservatory. He is also a familiar face as a pianist at master classes and competitions.
Mari Tampere-Bezrodny is a well-known violinist and professor. For decades she has played as a soloist with many famous symphony and chamber orchestras as well as recitals and, of course, chamber music in more than 40 countries in Europe, Asia and America. She has performed with conductors like Eri Klas, Leonid Grin, Neeme Järvi, Mstislav Rostropovich and many others.
Mrs. Tampere-Bezrodny has made many world-premieres of Russian and Estonian composers’ works for violin such as violin concertos by Jaan Rääts, René Eespere, sonatas and pieces by Nikolai Rakov, Lepo Sumera, among others. She has also appeared as a pianist, cembalist and conductor. As chamber musician she has collaborated with, for instance, Bruno Lukk, Risto Lauriala, Erkki Rautio, Valentin Feigin, Igor Bezrodny, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, and Feodor Druzhinin.
She studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire and completed her Post Graduate studies with a legendary violinist, professor Igor Bezrodny. Today Mari Tampere is professor of violin at the Estonian Music Academy and Sibelius-Academy in Finland. She has been teaching in Moscow Conservatoire (1996-2001) and she held regular Master Classes in Madrid (2001-2006). Mrs. Tampere-Bezrodny has given many master classes in most European countries, USA, Israel, China, Russia, Japan among others.
She has already raised two generations of high professional violinists, many of whom are prize-winners of different international competitions, and leaders of numerous orchestras all over the world. As a jury member Mari Tampere-Bezrodny has been in many international competitions.
Finnish cellist Joona Pulkkinen has performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras, such as the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, Brussel’s La Monnaie Orchestra and Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed at several important Scandinavian music festivals and in many great European concert halls, including Brussels’ Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris’ Auditorium Fondation Louis Vuitton and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. In the fall of 2022, Pulkkinen started his work as a lecturer of cello at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
Pulkkinen was selected as an artist for the Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle program in Paris under the guidance of Gautier Capuçon for the 2015–2016 season. Other teachers of Pulkkinen include Gary Hoffman, Marko Ylönen and Pauli Heikkinen.
Pulkkinen won the 3rd prize in the national Turku cello competition as the youngest participant of the finals in 2010. He worked as the 1st solo cellist of the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra in 2014–2023. Pulkkinen has also worked as a substituting solo cellist for Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.
Joona Pulkkinen plays a rare Davide Pizzorno cello from 1769 and a Pierre Simon bow from 1855.
