KUUSISTO, PEKKA (), violinist, winner of the 1995 Sibelius Violin Competition, son of Ilkka Kuusisto and grandson of Taneli Kuusisto, brother of Jaakko Kuusisto () who earlier won fourth prize in the Sibelius Violin Competition in 1990.
At the age of fifteen Pekka Kuusisto won third prize in the 1992 Fourth Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition in Odense, Denmark. In 1995 he won the Seventh International Sibelius Violin Competition at the age of eighteen, the first Finn to...