Kati Raitinen

Kati Raitinen combines her work as principal cellist at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm with numerous chamber music projects both at domestic and international venues. As a member of the string trio ZilliacusPerssonRaitinen, she has won three Swedish Grammis Awards and a fourth for the Zilliacus Quartet’s debut album 2024. She shares artistic leadership with violinist Cecilia Zilliacus in Stockholm Concert Hall’s chamber music series “Äntligen måndag’” (Finally monday). In addition to numerous CD recordings, she has made many radio and television recordings, the most recent of which is a short film of Rita Strohl’s song Solitude with pianist Bengt Forsberg for SVT. At the Mänttä Art Festival 2022, Kati Raitinen was one of the participating artists with her work Surun jukeboksi (The Jukebox of Sorrow), created in collaboration with guitar maker Christian Lindblad. Raitinen came to Stockholm to study with Professor Frans Helmerson. Since 2020, she has been teaching cello at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Kati Raitinen is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.