Bio.

Liam Mansfield (b. 1996 in Las Vegas, Nevada) had always felt an inexplicable attraction to the violin, yet he began his musical pursuits by playing the piano. That road came to a dead end with his strict, elderly piano teacher’s demands to wake up at four in the morning to practice scales before the school day. Liam got his hands on a violin at the age of 11, and ever since he has been playing it with an almost obsessive fervor.

His dreams of becoming a professional musician were awakened after he attended a concert by the Las Vegas Philharmonic. He experienced a truly mind-blowing moment at a Thanksgiving concert in New York at the age of 16, when hearing Leonidas Kavakos performing Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto as soloist with the New York Philharmonic. “He brought the house down.” Mansfield recalls. “After the first movement, the entire audience burst into shouts and applause. I’ll never forget it; I was blown away.”

Mansfield studied under Alexander Kerr and Georgia Fleezanis in Bloomington, Indiana, and later under Christoph Poppen, Lena Neudauer and Markus Wolf in Munich. He moved to Finland in August 2022 after earning a seat with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Half-Polish and having spent most of his childhood summers in Europe, Mansfield was already familiar with the culture and political atmosphere of the old continent. In Finland, he was particularly interested in democratic society and attitudes.

During the coronavirus pandemic, Liam found inspiration in learning to produce electronic music and DJ. Since then, he has become a regular DJ at the most popular nightclubs in Helsinki, and hosts a radio show on IDA Raadio. Alongside production, he has become a well-versed recording engineer and runs a dance music record label called Feral.

Liam’s mission as an artist is to bring fresh life to Western art music culture by breaking down the elitist barriers that keep people out of concert halls. He intends to show that music is to be enjoyed by anyone in any sort of space- that classical string quartet can be enjoyed in a nightclub, and that electronic music can be experienced in a concert hall or church. He believes that music education should be accessible to all, and believes in a truly egalitarian society where all people treat each other with love, respect, and admiration.

Bio by Jaani Länsiö//Liam Mansfield