Vera Plosila

The traverso player Vera Plosila is one of the active voices of young Finnish early musicians. She holds a Master’s diploma form the Royal Conservatoire The Hague (2016) as well as the Sibelius Academy Helsinki (2019). Plosila has featured as an orchestral musician with the groups Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Nylandia, Weimar Baroque, Trondheim Barokk and Amsterdam Corelli Collective. In 2016 she was selected as one of the finalists of the EAR-ly soloists’ competition held at the BRQ Vantaa Festival.

Plosila’s most recent projects include a collaboration with Q Ensemble Berlin, based on the Händel cantata Mi palpita il cor. The piece is extended through a contemporary commission from Andreas Arend into a stage work. In summer 2021, Plosila led a collaboration project between the three Nordic early-music groups Ensemble Nylandia (FI), Camerata Öresund (SE/DK) and Cantoque Ensemble (IS), focusing on the connections of German and Nordic eighteenth-century court music. The initiative continues in 2022 as a collaboration between ensembles Nylandia, Hyperborea (NO), and Reval (EE). Here the focus will be on Nordic, Baltic and German high-Baroque repertoire from the Düben manuscript collection.

During the fall semester 2021 Plosila starts her doctoral studies at the Leiden University as a part of the Dutch-Flemish docARTES programme. Her research dives into the philosophy of the sublime discussed at the Berlin Montagsklub during the 1750–70’s, and its connection to the circle’s musicians’ instrumental chamber repertoire.

Apart from performing and research, Plosila is keenly interested in historical music pedagogy.