Riitta Pesola

Riitta Pesola began playing the cello at the Kotka Music Institute and continued her studies at the Sibelius Academy and the Juilliard School in New York. After winning the national cello competition in Turku in 1986, Pesola has performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras and in solo concerts in her home country, several European countries, as well as in the United States and Japan. Riitta Pesola is a member of Trio Finlandia and the principal cellist of the Tapiola Sinfonietta. Her instrument is an Italian Giovanni Grancino cello from 1698.