Erkki Lahesmaa studied  the cello with Aldo Parisot, Zara Nelsova, Harvey Shapiro and Timo Hanhinen at the Juilliard School, the Yale University and the Turku Conservatory (Finland). He has also had extensive chamber music studies with, among others, the Juilliard- and Tokyo string quartets.

In 1990 Mr. Lahesmaa won the Juilliard competition in USA and in 1986 the second prize in the Turku cello competition in Finland.

Mr. Lahesmaa made his debut in New York in 1990 performing the Dvorak concerto at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. Since then he has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe, USA, Canada, South-America and Japan. Latest appearances have been in the Warsaw Autumn-festival, Berliner Festspiele's MaerzMusik and the Huddersfield festival in Great Britain. Read more...