{"id":577947,"date":"2026-04-11T13:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/577947\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T13:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:14:11","slug":"pekka-kuusisto-cancels-his-united-states-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/577947\/","title":{"rendered":"Pekka Kuusisto cancels his United States concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pizzicato.lu\/pekka-kuusisto-cancels-his-united-states-concerts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"624\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Pekka-Kuusisto_7583_c.Bard-Gundersen.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-180 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pekka Kuusisto<br \/>(c) Bard Gundersen<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted on social media, Finnish violinist, conductor, and composer Pekka Kuusisto announced that stopped working in the United States. He says that the Trump administration\u2019s current policies and the fact that non-resident artists are subject to a 30% federal withholding tax on their US income are the reasons for his decision. This means that money from donors and patrons could be used to fund government initiatives he does not approve of (war, ICE, etc.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pekka Kuusisto(c) Bard Gundersen In a video posted on social media, Finnish violinist, conductor, and composer Pekka Kuusisto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-577947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}