Pekka Kuusisto

Pekka Kuusisto (born in 1976 in Espoo, Finland) is a Finnish classical violinist. Pekka Kuusisto began studying the violin at the age of three. His first violin teacher was Geza Szilvay at the East Helsinki Music Institute. In 1983 he enrolled in the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He began to study there with Tuomas Haapanen in 1985. He studied with Miriam Fried and Paul Biss at the Indiana University School of Music from 1992 to 1996. In 1995 Pekka