Vera Plosila is a Finnish traverso player based in Germany and Switzerland. She has performed as an orchestral and chamber musician with ensembles in the Nordic-Baltic region, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Spain, and Italy. Recently she has performed with the Finnish Baroque Orchestra and the Brussels-based chamber ensemble WIG Society, and in October she will give a solo recital at the Venetian Registri Festival. She is part of the artistic leadership team for Ensemble Nylandia’s forthcoming production La Doricela: Inter-Acts, in collaboration with the Canadian opera studio re:Naissance. She leads the traverso consort Intra Vires and is currently extending her knowledge of Renaissance music through advanced studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
Vera is a PhD candidate in Artistic Research on the docARTES programme at Leiden University. Supervised by Professors Rebecca Cypess and Dinko Fabris, her research examines adaptive performance practices in German chamber music from the 1760s to the early 1800s. In spring 2025, she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Royal Northern College of Music. Vera has published in the International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, and her article on accompanied keyboard sonatas will be published in 2026. She is a member of the Early Muse Performances network and takes part in the European Early Music Union’s REMArkable mentorship programme for researchers.
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