Mirka Malmi

Violinist Mirka Malmi is doing artistic doctoral research on the professionalism of women violinists and composers in the late 1800 century, using the life and career of Amanda Maier-Röntgen (1853–1894) as a case-study.

Mirka Malmi has been working with music by women composers for a long time. The series of eight concerts, Nainen ja Viulu (2018–2020) curated by Malmi presented violin and chamber music composed by Nordic women composers between 1850–1950. It culminated in the premiere of the violin concerto Tondikt (c. 1910–1930) by Ida Moberg, with Malmi as a soloist. In 2021 Mirka Malmi, together with pianist Tiina Karakorpi, released a cd and a music edition Other Finnish Works for Violin.

Mirka Malmi plays the violin in the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2002. She is an active partner in various chamber music ensembles and has given a number of premier performances. She appears regularly on various music festivals in Finland and is often heard on recordings for the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE.