Kasmir Uusitupa is one of the most versatile violinists of the new Finnish generation. He studied orchestral and string quartet playing from an early age and has diverse experience performing different genres with different instruments. Playing folk music with his family was a major influence on his development as a musician and his interest in performing other genres. Uusitupa’s forte is in leading chamber music, which gives him the opportunity to regularly perform in chamber music festivals as well as to be invited as a guest concert master in major Finnish orchestras. He has appeared as a soloist from a young age and has reinforced his musicianship by studying conducting. Kasmir Uusitupa plays an Italian Spiritus Sorsana violin (~1700), kindly on loan from the Finnish Cultural Foundation.