As the daughter of a Finnish cellist and a concertmaster, she received early instruction and made her debut at the age of 11 with Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in D minor. She studied with, among others, Pinchas Zuckerman and Patinka Kpoec at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, where she completed her studies in 1998. Concert tours have taken her to major concert halls in Europe and the USA, as well as to Israel, Canada, and South America.