Tuulia Hero
Professor of Violin (commencing Sep 2026) and Junior Fellow in Chamber Music
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Tuulia Hero is a multi-award-winning Finnish concert violinist, chamber musician, and educator. Guided by her love for innovation and collaboration in chamber music and classical improvisation, Tuulia is a founding member of the Paddington Trio and Ensemble+.
Tuulia gave her debut in 2012 at the Kauniainen Music Festival and has since been invited to perform at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Wigmore Hall in London, Janine Jansen’s Internationaal Kamermuziek Festival Utrecht, and numerous concerts around Europe, North America, and Eastern Asia. Highlights of her recent performances include return appearances at Kuhmo and West Cork Festivals, Festival Flanders Ghent, Internacional Festival Cervantino, the Oxford, Buxton, Brighton, and Chipping Campden Festivals, Kings Place, and two Wigmore Hall recitals with the Paddington Trio in the 2024/25 season. Upcoming appearances include Amsterdam Concertgebouw Sunday Morning Concerts, Museum-Gesellschaft in Alte Oper Frankfurt, Lucerne Chamber Music Society, Newbury Spring Festival, West Wicklow Festival, Shostakovich Gohrisch Festival, and Festival de Música de Morelia. The Paddington Trio’s anticipated debut album, “Freakshow”, is to be released on PENTATONE in 2027.
Tuulia has won first and special prizes at competitions such as the Parkhouse Award at Wigmore Hall, the Royal Over-Seas League International Competition, and the Schumann-Kammermusikpreis Frankfurt. In 2023, she was the artistic grant recipient of the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, and she received a generous two-year loan of a 1707 Stradivarius violin from the University of the Arts Helsinki. Since receiving the Finnish Pro Musica Award in 2012, she has received support from artist residencies at the City Music Foundation in London, Kirckman Concert Society, Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia Madrid, Netherlands String Quartet Academy, European Chamber Music Academy, and ProQuartet Centre Européen de Musique de Chambre.
Tuulia holds degrees from Guildhall School of Music and Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, and has studied at the Hanns Eisler School of Music and IMS Prussia Cove. She started her professional studies in 2010 at the Finnish National Violin Academy, which offered specialised training for 10 young violinists in Finland, and has studied with legendary pedagogues and performers, such as Günther Pichler, Philip Setzer, Ana Chumachenco, Ivry Gitlis, Levon Chilingirian, Alina Pogostkina, and Ilya Grubert.
She performs on a 1676 Goffriller violin, generously loaned to her by the Beare’s International Violin Society.
