Maria Itkonen

3rd concertmaster

Maria Itkonen has studied violin at the Sibelius Academy as a pupil of Päivyt Meller and Janne Malmivaara, Michael Frischenschlager at the Vienna School of Music and Alexander Kerr at the Amsterdam Conservatory. Itkonen has been the concertmaster guest at the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne, the Kamariorkesteri Avanti!, the Sinfonia in Lahore, the Shanghai Opera Orchestra and the Turun Philharmonic Orchestra.

Sha has also performed in the Vivo Symphony Orchestra, Orkester Norden, the European Union Youth Orchestra, the Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchester, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestre, the Verbier Festival Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Itkonen served as the alternating concertmaster of the Kuopio City Orchestra from 2007 to 2012. She has been the 3rd concert master of the Tampere Philharmonic since 2012. In addition to orchestral work, Itkonen studies orchestra management at the Panula Academy.