MARK GOTHONI, Director/Violin |
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Mark Gothoni was born in Finland in 1967. After he had begun study at the renowned Sibelius Academy in Helsinki at the age of six, he moved to Munich in 1984 and became a pupil of Ana Chumachenko. Other important teachers and musical mentors included Shmuel Ashkenasi in Chicago and Sandor Vegh in Salzburg.
A major prizewinner at a number of international competitions, including the Johannes Brahms Violin Competition in Hamburg in 1990, Gothoni was celebrated as the debut musician of the year at the Jyvaskylsa Arts Festival in Finland in 1991 and since then has regularly performed as a soloist with renowned orchestras in his native country. Gothoni is a welcome guest both as a soloist and chamber musician at numerous European festivals, in the United States and the Far East. Concert tours have taken him to five continents and he has performed among others, in the Berlin Philharmonic Hall and the Casals Hall in Tokyo. As a chamber musician Gothoni has made a name for himself especially with the Gothoni Quartet which he played with until 1999. For some years he has worked as principal guest concert-master of the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the German Chamber Academy of Neuss and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. In addition, Gothoni is artistic director of the Festivo Music Festival in Rauma, Finland and a sought-after teacher in master classes, which he has offered throughout Europe as well as in Japan and China. |