Program Head, Lecturer, Music
About
Finnish-born cellist Katri Ervamaa, DMA, is a multifaceted performer with a special love for 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 US, and chamber music with the Amadeus, Borodin and Vermeer Quartets, among others. She holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan.
Katri is a founding member and past president of the 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 newly founded Järnefelt Piano Trio. She appears on Envoy Recordings, Block M Records, and AMP Records labels. Most recently, she spearheaded and appeared in the documentary ”Mestiza Music”, produced by WFYI-Indinapolis, on 60 PBS stations nationwide, and the Brave New Works record ”The Outer Bar”, released in 2019.
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 the Eastern Michigan and Bowling Green State Universities. She plays on a 1868 HC Silvestre cello, and you can find them online at www.katrimusic.com.
