Member
Contact Information
charlieras03@gmail.comLocation
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Early Music Skills & Interests
Cello, Viola Da GambaEarly Music Affiliations
Board Member -Other, Educator, Music/Artistic Director, Performer
Biography
Charlie Rasmussen, cello and viola da gamba, is the Instrumental Director at Just Bach and also
performs with the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble, the New Milwaukee Consort, and the Madison
Bach Musicians. Charlie has also appeared with ViolMedium and in Milwaukee Opera Theatre productions.
Charlie has previously performed at the Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Series with the New York Continuo Collective, Sonata à Quattro, and as a soloist on the Viola da Gamba Society of America’s Gamba Gamut. Charlie has also performed on recitals at the Yale Institute of Sacred music. He has released Tommaso Giordani’s Cello Duos (Centaur Records, 2020) and 11 Capricci by Joseph Dall’Abaco (Centaur Records, 2018).
Charlie coaches the viol consort at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has been on faculty
at the Madison Early Music Festival. Charlie serves on the board of directors of Early Music
Now and helps coordinate the Milwaukee Early Music series.
Charlie is a cello faculty member and the Suzuki Coordinator at the Wisconsin Conservatory of
Music in Milwaukee. He holds degrees from Luther College (Decorah, Iowa) and the University
of North Carolina Greensboro. He has attended the American Bach Soloists Academy, Phoebe Carrai's Baroque Cello Bootcamp, and the Magnolia Baroque Institute.
