Rebecca Roozeman

Violin

Violinist Rebecca Roozeman is known for being a prizewinner in several competitions. She took first prizes in the International Young Musician Competition in Tallinn in 2011 and in the International Leonid Kogan Violin Competition in Brussels in the spring of 2018. In 2019, she took the first prize in the Jyväskylä National Violin Competition in Finland. 

Soloist tours and chamber music concerts have taken Roozeman to different parts of the world, such as Italy, Nagorno-Karabakh, China, Lithuania, Germany, Holland, and England. Most of Finland's professional orchestras have had Roozeman as their soloist, and she has collaborated with several renowned conductors as a soloist, such as Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Jorma Panula, and Dalia Stasevska. 

Besides being a soloist, Rebecca Roozeman is first violinist of the Seele String Quartet, and together the four young musicians won the Erkki Melartin Chamber Music Competition, while also getting the 2nd prize in the Rising Star Competition in Berlin.

In the summer of 2018, as the youngest participant, Roozeman entered the prestigious international Seiji Ozawa Academy, playing concerts with the top-level masterclass students in Switzerland, France, and Japan. In autumn 2022, violin star Renaud Capuçon invited her to perform with him in various chamber music ensembles in France.

Since 2020, Rebecca Roozeman has been pursuing her bachelor's degree in music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München under the guidance of Prof. Mi-Kyung Lee. Roozeman has been a Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Munich scholarship holder since the spring of 2023.

Photo: Robert Roozeman