Lauri Angervo began studying cello at the age of eight at the West Helsinki Music Institute under Kari Lindstedt. Since 1987, his teachers have included Arto Noras, Josef Schwab, and Alexander Baillie. In addition to the Sibelius Academy, Lauri has studied at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin and the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen. Influential figures in his musical career have included the Amadeus Quartet, Ari Angervo, Robert Cohen, Frans Helmerson, Janne Saksala, György Sebők, and Mstislav Rostropovich.

 

Lauri Angervo has served as the principal cellist of the Lapland Chamber Orchestra since 2004. He has performed both in Finland and across numerous European countries, as well as in Japan and China, as a chamber musician and as a soloist with orchestras. Angervo was a member of the Selin Quartet, which won first prize at the prestigious international Concertino Praga competition in 1988.

 

Angervo has played with many orchestras and ensembles, including Avanti!, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Finnish National Opera Orchestra, the Oriol Ensemble (Berlin), Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt), the Helsinki Festival Orchestra, and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie (Bremen).

 

He began studying the F. M. Alexander Technique in 1995 and graduated as an Alexander Technique teacher in spring 2003 in Berlin under Dan Armon.