Praised as “a born soloist” who “plays with complete sovereignty” (jury of the Dutch Violin Competition), the Finnish-Dutch violinist Rebecca Roozeman has won several competitions, including first prize at the International Young Musician Competition in Tallinn (2011) and first prize at the International Leonid Kogan Violin Competition in Brussels (2018). In 2019, she received first prize at the Jyväskylä National Violin Competition in Finland, and in 2026 she won first prize – the Oskar Back Prize – and the Audience Prize at the Dutch Violin Competition in Utrecht (het Nederlands Vioolconcours). Following this success, she has been invited to perform more frequently across the Netherlands, with several concerts already scheduled for 2026-2028, appearing as a soloist, in recitals and in chamber music collaborations. As first violinist of the Seele String Quartet, she won the Erkki Melartin Chamber Music Competition and received second prize at the Rising Star Competition in Berlin.
Roozeman has appeared as a soloist with most of Finland’s professional orchestras. These include Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Finnish National Opera, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra and the Finnish Chamber Orchestra. As a soloist, she has collaborated with several renowned conductors, including Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Jorma Panula, Dalia Stasevska, Valentin Uryupin, and Mihhail Gerts.
Solo tours and chamber music concerts have taken her to many parts of the world, including Italy, France, Nagorno-Karabakh (Armenia), China, Lithuania, Germany, Estonia, the Netherlands, and England. A sought-after chamber musician, Roozeman appears regularly at leading Finnish festivals, such as the Turku Music Festival, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Aino Ackté Festival, Crusell-Week and Rusk Festival. Beginning in fall 2026, Roozeman takes on the role of Artistic Director of the Kamarikesä Chamber Music Festival, Helsinki’s oldest chamber music festival.
Roozeman has actively participated in masterclasses around the world, including the Kronberg Academy violin masterclass and the Menuhin Academy masterclass in Gstaad, where she worked with Ana Chumachenco. Other influential mentors include Mihaela Martin, Mikhail Kopelman, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Gerhard Schulz, Alexander Vinitsky, Pavel Vernikov, and Vadim Gluzman.
In the summer of 2018, as the youngest participant, she entered the prestigious Seiji Ozawa Academy, performing concerts together with the academy’s top-level masterclass students in Switzerland, France, and Japan.
In autumn 2022, violinist Renaud Capuçon invited her to perform with him in various chamber music ensembles in France. Other renowned artists with whom she has performed chamber music include Ilya Gringolts, Yuval Gotlibovitch, David Cohen, Ralf Gothóni, John Storgårds, and Vladimir Mendelssohn.
She completed her Bachelor’s degree with highest honors at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München under the guidance of Professor Mi-Kyung Lee. In October 2025, she began her Master’s studies in the class of Professor Lena Neudauer. Since spring 2023, Roozeman has been a scholarship holder of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Munich and regularly performs in Germany.
Roozeman began playing the violin at the age of six at the Espoo Music Institute, where she studied with Grazyna Gebert. From 2015 to 2020, she continued her studies at the Sibelius Academy Youth Department under the guidance of Pekka Kauppinen, concertmaster of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.