Laura Vikman (b.1978) has been third concert master of the Finnish Radio 
Symphony Orchestra since 2002.  She is also first violinist of the 
Tempera Quartet and teaches violin at the Sibelius Academy.
Ms. Vikman has worked as concert master of the Helsinki Baroque 
Orhestra, Avanti!, The Sixth Floor Orhcestra and the Arpeggione 
Orchestra in Austria.  In 2004-2007 Ms. Vikman worked, alongside the 
other members of Tempera Quartet, as artistic director of the Riihimäki 
Summer Concerts.

Ms. Vikman has also performed as soloist of the Finnish Radio Symphony 
Orchestra, The Belgian National Orchestra and the Musica Vitae orchestra 
in Sweden.  In Helsinki, she performed with Pinchas Zukerman as soloist 
of the Camerata Caprice chamber orhestra.

Ms. Vikman has performed at the Holland Music Sessions, Bachfest 
Leipzig, Bach concert series in Frankfurt, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival 
and the Tuusulanjärvi Chamber Music.  In 2002 Gidon Kremer chose her, on 
the basis of an eliminatory, to join the artists of the Chamber Music 
Connects the World festival.

As recitalist, Ms. Vikman has performed in Finland, Germany, Austria and 
the USA.  At the Bach Festival in Istanbul she has performed twice, 
playing complete Bach solo sonatas and partitas.

Ms. Vikman has received several prizes in competitions, eg. J.S.Bach 
Competition in Leipzig and the Beethoven Competition in the Czech 
Republic.  At the Kuopio Violin Competition in Finland, she received the 
special prize of the Finnish Broadcasting Company in 1995, and in 2000, 
the second prize.  In 2004, together with pianist Marianna Shiriniyan 
Ms. Vikman received second prize at the Vittorio Gui Chamber Music 
Competition in Florence.

Laura Vikman has studied at the Sibelius Academy with Päivyt Rajamäki 
and Prof. Tuomas Haapanen.  Also, she has studied at the music academies 
in Vienna and Cologne under the guidance of M. Frischenschlager and 
Michaela Martin.  She has taken part in master classes by Pinchas 
Zukerman, Shmuel Ashkenasi and Hagai Shaham.

Ms. Vikman plays an A. Guarneri (1680) owned by the Finnish Cultural 
Foundation.