Otto Antikainen

Bio

Violinist Otto Antikainen is active both as an orchestral soloist and chamber musician. He has appeared as a soloist with, among others, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Oulu Sinfonia, the Joensuu City Orchestra and the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra. During the 2025/26 season, he performed as a soloist with ensembles including the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Saimaa Sinfonietta, Jyväskylä Sinfonia, and the city orchestras of Seinäjoki and Vaasa. In the upcoming season, he will appear as a soloist with, among others, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a chamber musician, Antikainen has performed at numerous festivals, including Kuhmo Chamber Music, the Gstaad New Year Music Festival and Tampere Chamber Music Festival. He was awarded third prize at the Kuopio Violin Competition in 2020. He also won the Juhani Heinonen Violin Competition in 2016 and received special prizes at the Menuhin Competition in Geneva in 2018 and the Carl Flesch Violin Competition in Hungary in 2023.

At last year's International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition, Otto Antikainen reached the final.