Katri Ervamaa

cello

Finnish-born cellist Katri Ervamaa, Doctor of Musical Arts, is a multifaceted performer with a special focus in chamber music, new music, and creative improvisation. She has performed and given master classes throughout North America, Europe, and Taiwan. Her festival appearances include the Orlando, Kuhmo, Bowdoin, Lyckå, and Norrtäjle Chamber Music Festivals (with the Finnish Owla String Quartet), as well as the Denison University Tutti! New Music Festival, Poison City Music Festival, Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival, and Finnfest, among others. She has also performed at Ann Arbor’s Edgefest with Lars Hollmer’s Global Home Project, Guy Kluscevic, Mark Kirschenmann, E3Q, Andrew Bishop, and Ed Sarath. Katri studied cello with Erling Blöndal Bengtsson and Marc Johnson in the U.S., and chamber music with the Amadeus, Borodin, and Vermeer Quartets, among others. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan.

Katri is a founding member and past president of Brave New Works new music ensemble, the Muse Ensemble, and E3Q, an improvisation-based genre-defying trio of cello, trumpet, and percussion, as well as the Järnefelt Piano Trio. She appears on Envoy Recordings, Block M Records, and AMP Records labels. She appears in the documentary Mestiza Music, produced by WFYI-Indianapolis, on 60 PBS stations nationwide, and most recently on the Brave New Works record The Outer Bar. In addition to her lively performance career, Dr. Ervamaa is on faculty at the University of Michigan’s Residential College, where she is the head of the music program and teaches chamber music and musicianship. She has also been on the cello faculty at Eastern Michigan and Bowling Green State Universities. She plays on an 1868 HC Silvestre cello, and you can find them online at katrimusic.com.