Amanda Keesmaat

cello

Amanda Keesmaat (Montreal) performs as principal cellist with Arion Baroque Orchestra. As director of Space Time Continuo, her project first supported by La Nef in 2019, she has made 3 full-length recordings and taken her group to Festival Lanaudière, Chamberfest (Ottawa) and toured Montreal boroughs with grants from the City of Montreal Arts Council.

Amanda is an original member of Skye Consort, principal cellist of Les Idées Heureuses, and plays regularly with Clavecin en Concert, Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal (SMAM) and Galileo.  As a specialist on basse de violon, Amanda belongs to Rendez-Vous Baroque Français, an ensemble specializing in French baroque music. Amanda has also toured with Les Violons du Roy (Quebec), Pacific Baroque Orchestra (Vancouver) and Tafelmusik (Toronto).