"Senja Rummukainen is a fantastic cellist." - Göteborgs-Posten
"The highlight of the evening was still Senja Rummukainen's sensationally fine performance of Shostakovich's first cello concerto." - HBL
"Senja Rummukainen is a fantastic cellist." - Göteborgs-Posten "The highlight of the evening was still Senja Rummukainen's sensationally fine performance of Shostakovich's first cello concerto." - HBL
"Unbelievable power and intensity." - Brabant Cultural
"Senja Rummukainen presented her playing skills and the wide range of expression of her beautifully-sounding Stefano Scarambella cello..." - Kulttuuritoimitus
"...she lived in every moment, the fantastical and the gruff as well as the introspective..." - The Arts Desk
"Unbelievable power and intensity." - Brabant Cultural "Senja Rummukainen presented her playing skills and the wide range of expression of her beautifully-sounding Stefano Scarambella cello..." - Kulttuuritoimitus "...she lived in every moment, the fantastical and the gruff as well as the introspective..." - The Arts Desk
SENJA RUMMUKAINEN/CELLO
Starting her career in Finland in 2014 after winning the Turku Cello Competition and became a finalist of the International Tchaikovsky Competition, today Senja Rummukainen becomes one of the brightest cellists of her generation. Praised by critics for her "unbelievable power and intensity", she performs with the renown orchestras at the most remarkable venues.
Upcoming highlights in the 2025/2026 season include a tour with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, and performances with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. A new cello concerto by Monnakgotla, commissioned specially for Rummukainen by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, will receive its world premiere. In the chamber music sphere, she will appear in special projects with Tarmo Peltokoski at Konzerthaus Dortmund and the Dresden Musikfestspiele.
Nowadays, Senja is regularly invited as a soloist by the leading conductors – Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sakari Oramo, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Nicholas Collon, Dima Slobodeniouk, Ryan Bancroft, Susanna Mälkki, Emilia Hoving – to perform with the Cleveland Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orquesta Filarmônica de Bogotá, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Chamber music is Rummukainen's other passion.
Her revealed ability to be a sensitive partner on a stage, attention to details, careful attitude to music, constant extending of the repertoire and the abilities of the instrument gave her both the reputation of an amazing chamber musician and opportunity to share a stage with Janine Jansen, Ilya Gringolts, Augustin Hadelich and Olli Mustonen.
Rummukainen currently plays a David Tecchler cello from 1707, owned by Finnish Cultural Foundation.
