Laura Martin
Laura Martin is a very versatile musician. In addition to her passion for the classical music repertoire, she always had a strong interest in art in general and likes to experiment and see how they can interact and enrich each other to deliver a specific message. She likes to think herself as a multi-faceted artist, on one side the classical cellist, and on the other side the artist working with different art forms and reflecting on society. From Concert-exhibitions to improvised performances with dancers, Laura’s latest perfomance mixing different artfields was “Concordia”, a Butoh dance and cello performance taking place in EMMA-Espoo Museum of Modern Art in May 2022
Laura Martin (1992) is one of the rare musicians to have built her own instrument. She was then 17, and this cello became her musical partner for several years. This unforgettable process opened to her the universe of sound-making from its deepest origin. Originally from Paris, Laura made her Bachelor studies in Belgium at the Brussels’ Royal Conservatory, in the class of Marie Hallynck, and then graduated from her Master at the Sibelius Academy in 2018 where she studied with Martti Rousi. She has then been asked to be Cello Assistant in the class of Martti Rousi
Laura has participated in various projects and masterclasses such as the Festival Pablo Casals, the Villecroze Academy, the Cello Biennale of Amsterdam (2016), the 9th Osaka chamber music competition, and the Creative Dialogue IX with the composer Kaija Saariaho and the cellist Anssi Karttunen. Laura Martin has also collaborated with artists like the violinist Mihaela Martin, the pianists Kyoko Ashimoto, Martti Rautio, Valeria Resjan, Irina Zahharenkova, and the soprano coloratura Piia Komsi.
In the summer of 2018, she was invited to be a Professional Performance Artist at the Boston Music Institute’s 12 Hour Masterclasses with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and participated in the music festival of Santander in Spain.
Laura Martin is also the associate director of Cellofest.fi created together with Martti Rousi in February 2019, the first-ever International Cello Festival in Finland which takes place every second year.
Based in Helsinki, Laura is the cellist of the Trio du Jardin Féérique which developpes projetcs in France and Finland, as well as the principal cellist and one of the founding member of the Helsinki Chamber Orchestra. As a freelancer, she regularly works with various orchestras such as the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Orchestra, the Finnish National Opera and Ballet and the Lapland Chamber Orchestra, in addition to her activity as a chamber musician