Cello Positions Material for Getting Practice in Various Positions     Learning the positions on the cello is usually a big job. Getting int...

  Preply Have you ever taken lessons/classes online?  Nowadays, the answer is more likely than ever, "Yes".  Not only can you take...

Creating a Podcast  The incredible tools that we have at our fingertips today allows us to create studio quality things at home. (Provided w...

Online Cello Lessons With Aaron Sinnett, from Traveling Cello There are so many people who have come up to me over the many thousands of per...

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Few pieces of music written in the last 100 years are as moving as the Adagietto from Mahler's fifth symphony. The tranquility, the se...

James Hook 1746-1827 IMSLP     This is James Hook, an English composer and organist. The duets I will write about are his Op. 58 i...

One on One: In person and Online Having taught thousands of lessons and coached hundreds of ensembles I have amassed a certain fluency in...

Primarily, I'm a freelance cellist. I play as a substitute or in ad hoc orchestras for specific programs. In this case I just played Mes...

Cold. Lifeless. Hopeless. The cello sat in its case looking so beautiful. Soft amber hues. Each grain gliding, slightly curving from shoulde...

After re-reading the brief paragraph on Georg Goltermann by Margaret Campbell in her very worthy book "The Great Cellists" I decid...

Out of the choice of cellists who were themselves composers, I find it odd that Georg Goltermann has come to my attention. As a student I le...

12 Album Leaves  for Cello and Piano by: Reinhold Glière  Discovering heretofore unknown works for cello from the Romantic period and bef...

How does memorizing a piece work for you? What methods do you employ? Or is it just the faith that many, many times through it will render t...

Saturday, February 2, 2013 9:30 a.m. Arrived at New Life SDA English Church  in Taipei. Held in the auditorium of the Adventist Hospital...

Auditions are often viewed by many as a necessary evil to advancing oneself in the performing arts career. They are certainly no walk in the...

The Richland Auditorium is one of those old turn of the 20th Century venues that are falling apart due to lack of funds and/or neglect. T...

Steel versus Gut I have taken up the challenge of comparing gut and steel. Last week I ordered Eudoxa Chrome/Gut A and D strings, and Pas...

There comes the inevitable time of every cello's life when repairs and adjustments must be made. The health of the instrument depend on ...

I think it is not half bad for looking at it for less than a week. All the while also memorizing Dvorak third movement and Bach Suite No. 4 ...