Concertmaster
BIOGRAPHY
Kanerva Mannermaa (born 1993) is a Finnish violinist raised in big cities and extreme places. After being educated at a hungarian-lead music school in Helsinki, a musical-humanistic lyceum in Eastern Siberia, the famous Rimsky-Korsakov music school in St. Petersburg, and multiple orchestra academies around Europe, Kanerva has had the unique opportunity to learn on the job from a very young age.
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She has since worked in chamber and symphony orchestras all over Finland, both as a tutti player and as concertmaster and section leader. In January 2023 Kanerva won a permanent position in Tapiola Sinfonietta. As a chamber musician, Kanerva has toured internationally, and released an album of Kai Nieminen’s string quartets as the primas of The Sea Lapland String Quartet.
Concertmaster
BIOGRAPHY
Kanerva Mannermaa (born 1993) is a Finnish violinist raised in big cities and extreme places. After being educated at a hungarian-lead music school in Helsinki, a musical-humanistic lyceum in Eastern Siberia, the famous Rimsky-Korsakov music school in St. Petersburg, and multiple orchestra academies around Europe, Kanerva has had the unique opportunity to learn on the job from a very young age.
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She has since worked in chamber and symphony orchestras all over Finland, both as a tutti player and as concertmaster and section leader. In January 2023 Kanerva won a permanent position in Tapiola Sinfonietta. As a chamber musician, Kanerva has toured internationally, and released an album of Kai Nieminen’s string quartets as the primas of The Sea Lapland String Quartet.