The Finnish-Dutch cel­list Jonath­an Rooze­man is one of the strik­ing young per­formers of his gen­er­a­tion. He drew inter­na­tion­al atten­tion to him­self at an early age: in 2015, as the young­est par­ti­cipant, he won sixth prize at the Inter­na­tion­al Tchaikovsky Com­pet­i­tion. Since then, he has per­formed as a guest with the Finnish Radio Sym­phony Orches­tra, the hr-Sin­fonieorchester, and at inter­na­tion­al fest­ivals and con­cert halls such as the Con­cer­t­ge­bouw Ams­ter­dam, Lin­coln Cen­ter New York and the Konzer­thaus Ber­lin.

Con­tem­por­ary Finnish music forms a spe­cial focus of his work. With Kaiku (Echo) – Finnish Con­tem­por­ary Works for Cello Rooze­man will release his debut solo album on BIS Records in 2026. The pro­gramme brings togeth­er works by Kalevi Aho, Cecil­ia Dam­ström, Sebasti­an Fager­lund, Lauri Porra, Outi Tark­i­ain­en and Sauli Zinovjev, includ­ing sev­er­al world premiere record­ings and pieces writ­ten espe­cially for Rooze­man.

Since sum­mer 2026, Opheli­as Cul­ture PR has been sup­port­ing Jonath­an Rooze­man in con­nec­tion with the release of Kaiku. The focus is on the media cam­paign for the album, the col­lab­or­a­tion with the par­ti­cip­at­ing com­posers, and Roozeman’s spe­cial com­mit­ment to con­tem­por­ary Finnish music.