Eva Elizabeth Skanse began her musical career through a debut concerto performance with the Dayton Philharmonic at age 17. She is the former principal flute of the Queen City Chamber Orchestra, a founding member of the Cincinnati Camerata and Silentwoods Collective, the founder and artistic director of the Aurora Ensemble, and is the executive director of the Lyra Baroque in Saint Paul, the youngest to hold this position.

Eva has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the American Bach Soloists, the Queen City Chamber Orchestra, Concerto Napoletano, the Aurora Ensemble, among others. She has performed with various modern and period ensembles across the country and abroad.

Eva founded the Aurora Ensemble, a period ensemble dedicated to historic Scandinavian music. The Aurora Ensemble has delivered performances of at least 5 “American premieres” of lost Nordic music.

Other than music, Eva’s great loves in life are forests and old things.