Alma Antila is a Finnish cellist who graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in music pedagogy from Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki. She started playing the cello at the age of 6 in Kankaanpää’s music institute. She began her professional studies at Helsinki Conservatory of Music and has also studied abroad at the Madeira Conservatory of Music as an Erasmus exchange student. Her main teachers have included Samuli Peltonen, Kati Raitinen, Sami Mäkelä, and Roi Ruottinen, and she has participated in masterclasses with Martti Rousi, Tuomas Ylinen, Helen Linden, and Joona Pulkkinen.
As both a soloist and ensemble musician, Alma has appeared in a wide range of productions, from chamber music to symphonic repertoire and opera. She has performed as a soloist with the Pori Symphony Orchestra and has been active as principal cellist in productions such as Leonard Bernstein’s Candide and Einojuhani Rautavaara’s The House of the Sun. Internationally, she has played at festivals including the Rencontres musicales de Figeac in France, where she has performed as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestra member, and at Opera by the Fjord in Bergen, Norway. In 2022 she was selected to join Orkester Norden, an international Nordic youth orchestra.
Chamber music also plays a central role in her artistic life; since 2017 she has been a founding member of the Elaine Quartet. In addition to her performing career, Alma has a strong interest in educational and artistic projects, including the promotion of underrepresented repertoire such as works by women composers.
She is student of Fondazione Accademia di Musica since 2025.
