Swedish-Finnish classical cellist, living in Stockholm, born December 7, 1980.

Since 2008, Rostamo has been the solo cellist of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and since 2022 a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm.

Johannes Rostamo is also the artistic director of the baroque ensemble Orfeus Barock Stockholm, with its own concert series in the Grünewald Hall. He is also a dedicated chamber musician and one of the initiators of the Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble, which experiments with the concert form and works cross-border with artists.

As a solo cellist, he has guested with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Les Siècles in Paris and the Finnish Baroque Orchestra in Helsinki. Rostamo is represented on several CDs, including with Orfeus Barock in Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Cello Concerto in A minor and with Stockholm Syndrome.

Johannes Rostamo trained in Helsinki, Stockholm and Oslo with Heikki Rautasalo, Torleif Thedéen, Truls Mörk and Frans Helmerson. In recent years he has delved into baroque interpretation and studied baroque cello with Emmanuel Balssa, Bruno Cocset and Gaetano Nasillo.