

BIOGRAPHY
Saxophonist Joonatan Rautiola is one of today's most recognized Finnish soloists and a brilliant representative of the new generation of Nordic classical wind players.
Joonatan Rautiola
studied at the Sibelius Academy under Pekka Savijoki and in Paris with Nicolas
Prost and Christian Wirth. In 2010 he became the first Nordic saxophonist having
graduated from Claude Delangle's saxophone class at the Paris Conservatory. His
other teachers include clarinetist Paul Meyer and oboist Maurice
Bourgue.
Joonatan Rautiola has
appeared as a soloist with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Finnish Radio
Symphony Orchestra, Düsseldorfer Symfoniker, Het Kamerorkest Brugge among others and with several
professional Nordic wind orchestras. He has given recitals in
London, Dublin, Tokyo, St. Petersbourg and at New York's Carnegie
Hall.
An active performer of
contemporary music, Joonatan Rautiola has given first performances of works
by Patrick Marcland, Tapio Tuomela, Olli Virtaperko, Tuomas Turriago, Gerald Shapiro,
Antonin Servière and Christian Lauba, and has received tuition from Pierre
Boulez and Betsy Jolas. Highlights from past years include the premiere of
Guillaume Connesson's saxophone concerto with the Strasbourg Philharmonic
Orchestra and Olli Virtaperko's saxophone concerto with
TampereRaw.
Joonatan Rautiola is the only wind instrumentist having
won the Finnish National Radio’s Young Soloists’ Competition. His numerous
prizes in international competitions include first prizes at the Nordic Wind
Soloists' Competition and the Nova Gorica International Saxophone Competition as
well as prizes at the International Aeolus Competition for Wind Instruments and
the International Adolphe Sax Saxophone Competition in Dinant,
Belgium.
Joonatan Rautiola teaches at the Sibelius Academy and at
the Tampere Music Academy and has given masterclasses at Tokyo, Riga, London and
Strasbourg among others. Joonatan Rautiola is a Henri Selmer Paris and d'Addario Woodwinds
artist.