Antti Hotti

Antti Hotti works as a Senior lecturer of Piano at the Sibelius Academy,University of the Arts, Helsinki. Previously, he was a piano lecturer at the Helsinki Conservatory, Turku Conservatory, and Turku University of Applied Sciences. Hotti studied in the Sibelius Academy's youth training under Meri Louhos and Jussi Siirala and later in the master's training program with Prof. Matti Raekallio and Prof.Liisa Pohjola. He continued his studies as a Fulbright scholar in New York (Manhattan School of Music)with Nina Svetlanova, a student of H.Neuhaus from Moscow Conservatory.

Hotti won the 3rd prize in the Maj Lind piano competition in 1994 and in 2002 he was awarded in New York in the "Artists International" competition for which he received a recital at Carnegie Hall, in the Weil Hall. Hotti has performed as a soloist in several Finnish orchestras and is known for his skill in improvising classical music. He is sought-after piano pedagogue and gives regularly masterclasses in Nordic countries for ex. Nurmes Summer Academy and Raudaskylä International Masterclasses, Enskede Pianodagar.