Erland Vestby – Cello

“Professional cellist and Winchester resident Erlend Vestby will perform a solo recital this afternoon to include music by Sibelius and Bach.”

Norwegian cellist Erlend Vestby is in high demand as a chamber musician,
frequently performing with small ensembles and chamber orchestras, often as guest
principal. This includes Piccadilly Sinfonietta, The Duettists cello duo, Gothic Opera,
Opera Holland Park, Longhope Opera, British Sinfonia, Sinfonia Smith Square and
the Duchess of Edinburgh String Orchestra. Erlend is on the extras list for the
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, plays with the Brandenburg Sinfonia, Orchestra
Nova, and he frequently performed with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra when living in Norway.
He has been a soloist with various orchestras both in the UK and abroad. As a
recitalist he has appeared on Classic FM, the London Festival of Baroque Music,
Romsey Music Festival, Dart Music Festival, and he appear frequently at the
Goodworth House recital series in Andover. As a baroque cellist he has performed
with Florilegium, Oxford Bach Soloists, Gabrieli and Brandenburg Baroque Soloists.
He enjoyed the experience scheme of the OAE in 2022, and he is busy performing
with his own group, Obsidian Baroque, who recently received a grant from the
Continuo Foundation to explore music by 17 th century women composers.
Erlend is a graduate of the Royal College of Music kindly supported by the Anglo-
Norse Society where he studied with Jakob Kullberg and Richard Tunnicliffe.
Erlend’s versatile musicality makes him not only a performer, but also a composer,
teacher, and a keen researcher and lecturer on early 18 th and early 20 th century
performance practices where the music of Bach and Elgar stand central.

www.erlendvestby.no