Evan Buttar enjoys a varied and international performing career on both the baroque cello and viola da gamba. He has performed with groups such as the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Le Concert des Nations, Ensemble Zefiro, PRJCT Amsterdam, and Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, and regularly plays with various ensembles including the Luthers Bach Ensemble, Musica Gloria, Das Neue Mannheimer Orchester, and the Butter Quartet, a historically-informed string quartet of which he is a founding member. His chamber and orchestral experiences have brought him to international stages in numerous festivals, including the Utrecht Early Music Festival, the MA Festival Brugge, Mozartfest Würzburg, Festival Berlioz, Chopin and his Europe Festival, the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, the Beethoven Academy in Wrocław, and the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam.
Evan started playing music at a young age in Vancouver, Canada. After completing a bachelor’s degree in modern cello at the University of Ottawa in 2014, his fascination with historically informed performance practice inspired his move to the Netherlands, where he currently resides. There he obtained a baroque cello master’s degree with Jaap ter Linden at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague in 2016, and that same year started a second master’s study there on the viola da gamba with Mieneke van der Velden and Philippe Pierlot, which he completed in 2018.
Evan plays a baroque cello by Jakob Weiss (ca. 1745) generously on loan from the collection of The Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation.