Elina Vähälä

She also studied at the Kuhmo Violin School with Zinaida Gilels, Ilya Grubert and Pavel Vernikov.

Vähälä subsequently served as "Young Master Soloist" for the 1993-1994 season with Sinfonia Lahti.

[1] In 2008, she was chosen to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony which was televised to a worldwide audience.

In September 2015, Vähälä performed the original 1904 version of the Violin Concerto of Jean Sibelius, the third documented live performance of the original version, with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu.

[3] In January 2022, Vähälä gave the North American premiere of the original 1904 version of the Sibelius Violin Concerto in two performances with Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra.