Education
He has studied at the Sibelius Academy, University of Southern California and the Tel Aviv University with Hagai Shaham.
He has studied at the Sibelius Academy, University of Southern California and the Tel Aviv University with Hagai Shaham.
Iivonen"s debut album called Art of the Violin was released by Linn Records in 2009. In 2010 his Israeli debut took place at the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv with maestro Zubin Mehta. Mr. Iivonen plays a Carlo Bergonzi (Villa Gyllenberg) violin made in the year 1732.
The violin has previously been owned by Isaac Stern and Paavo Berglund.
His special hobby is aerobatics flying with glider plane.