Kati Raitinen

Kati Raitinen holds the position of solo cellist with the Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra in Stockholm. She is also an important chamber musician and an educator. Many of Raitinen's early appearances on recordings came on pop albums; she made her debut in 2000 on the album Hagnesta Hill by the alternative band Kent. An early classical credit came in 2013 on soprano Anne Sofie von Otter's album Douce France. In 1999, Raitinen joined with violinist Cecilia Zilliacus and violist Johanna Persson to form the ZilliacusPerssonRaitinen string trio. In 2024, Raitinen returned with Zilliacus and pianists Bengt Forsberg and Peter Friis Johansson on an album of chamber music by Marcelle de Manziarly. Raitinen joined the Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra (also known as the Royal Swedish Orchestra) in 2002 and, as of the mid-2020s, continued to hold the position of solo cellist there.