Paavo Lötjönen (born 29 July 1968) is a cello player for Finnish band Apocalyptica.

[2] At the age of 6,[3] he took a cello and decided that would be the instrument he would play all his life.

Like fellow band members Perttu Kivilaakso and Eicca Toppinen, he attended Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

[4] 20 years later, Paavo got his "Solist Cellist" diploma at the Sibelius Academy, and shortly after began to work as a cello teacher in music schools.

[4] He plays a Gulbrandt Enger cello (1882) with a R. Wainio bow.