Elina Vähälä's playing was blinding, answering to all the demands of the music in power, virtuosity and soft melancholy. A pure and poetic feeling in the violin tone and fiery involvement in the interpretation.
Yes, it was absolutely brilliant...
(Svenska Dagbladet; Kalevi Aho: violin concerto)

Violinist Elina Vähälä is one of the most sought-after Finnish instrumentalists in the international music scene. She is the winner of the 1999 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York and hailed by the international press as "brilliant", "sensitive" and "luminous". She was recently introduced to a remarkably wide audience when she performed at the Nobel Peace Prize celebration. The television broadcast of the Nobel concert is distributed to 300 million households in 100 countries. Read More