Erkki Lahesmaa

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Erkki Lahesmaa is a Finnish cellist and music teacher.

Lahesmaa attended the Turku Conservatory and studied at Yale University and the Juilliard School . His cello teachers were Aldo Parisot , Zara Nelsova and Harvey Shapiro ; He studied chamber music with members of the Juilliard String Quartet and the Tokyo String Quartet . He won second prize at the 1986 cello competition in Turku and first prize at the 1990 Juilliard competition.

In New York he made his debut in the Albert Fisher Hall of Lincoln Center with Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto. He then performed as a chamber musician in Europe, the USA and Canada, South America and Japan, including at the Warsaw Autumn , the MaerzMusik of the Berlin Festival and the Huddersfield Festival in Great Britain. As a chamber musician, he is a member of the Artisti del Mondo and the Coryton Ensemble in the USA, the Arthur-Leblanc String Quartet in Canada as well as the Plus Ensemble and the Ad Libitum Piano Trio .

His repertoire also includes contemporary music and several Finnish composers wrote works for him. A CD with the Plus Ensemble received the Best Classical Album Award in 2010 . Lahesmaa teaches cello and chamber music at the Turku Music Academy. He also gave master classes at the conservatories in Beijing and Shanghai, in Santiago de Chile, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Florence, San Sebastian, Lisbon, Glasgow, Weimar, Bremen, Warsaw, Krakow, Saint Petersburg, Oslo, Reykjavik, Bergen, Kristiansand and Stavanger and acted as a juror in music competitions. He is the director of the Nauvo Chamber Music Festival (Nauvon kamarimusiikkipäivät) in Finland.

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SURNAME Lahesmaa, Erkki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish cellist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century