b'Guest ArtistBorn in the US and raised in Finland, ELINA VHL made her orchestral debut with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra at the age of twelve and was later chosen by Osmo Vnsk as the orchestras Young Master Soloist.Elina Vhl appears regularly with all of the key Finnish orchestras and at countless high-profile orchestras across the globe including Houston Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Dortmund Philharmoniker, Istanbul State Symphony, Malmo Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, and RTVE Spanish Radio Orchestra.The 2020-21 season will see Elina Vhls debuts with the Gothenburg Symphony, Norrkoping Symphony, Nordic Chamber Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic, Prague Radio Symphony, and Janek Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava, as well as return visits to Helsinki Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Turku Philharmonic, Oulu Symphony Orchestra, and Wroclaw Philharmonic.Her affinity with the music of the 20th and 21st centuries is evident with a CD devoted to the music of Aho, including his Violin Concerto No. 2, and a project with the Polish National Radio Symphony with Alexander Liebreich as part of their focus on Szymanowski.In 2009 Elina Vhl launched the Violin Academy. Funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the academy is a master class-based educational project for highly talented young Finnish violinists. She has been a professor at the Universitt fr Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna since September 2019. Elina Vhl performs with a Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin made in 1780.For more information, visit elinavahala.com.princetonsymphony.org/ 9'