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What if We All Did That?
OK, not to blog-rant (is that a thing?) but I’m often surprised by basic behaviors I see in music students (and professionals) and it reminds me of a saying we have in our cello section: “What if we...
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The Feldenkrais Method Helps Cellists!
A blog on the Feldenkrais Method and a call to apply for the Your Body is your Strad summer program by March 31. Written by Uri Vardi The Feldenkrais Method is a modality used to improve body...
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CelloBello János Starker Remembrance Week April 22-28
CelloBello Remembers János Starker Please join us for a full week of events and video releases,to remember and honor this great figure of the cello world.Preview of upcoming events: New Videos of...
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CelloBello János Starker Remembrance Week: Life as a Student of János Starker
János Starker “S” Bridge János Starker’s incomparable achievements as a performer and recording artist are well-documented. However, when I first appeared at his door as a new graduate student, my...
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János Starker Remembrance Week: Reminiscences from the Starker Studio
Cello-playing aside, Starker’s intelligence, force of personality, and personal discipline were intimidating to most people, and downright frightening to students. Our culture generally allows our...
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János Starker Remembrance Week: A Tribute To János Starker
By Maria Kliegel A moment of tense, expectant silence – to me it seemed to be an eternity. A couple of silent smoky clouds floating in the teaching room. Janos Starker looked at me in his typical...
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János Starker Remembrance Week: The Test
After a long journey a young man arrived deep in a forest where the teacher of his choice was living in a small house he had built himself. When the student arrived, the teacher was sweeping up...
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János Starker Remembrance Week: Presenting My Mentor with His Honorary...
János Starker Receiving His Honorary Doctorate at the New England Conservatory It is a privilege for me to be able to use my website, CelloBello.com, to honor my former teacher, colleague, and friend...
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János Starker Remembrance Week: Starker’s Two Grandchildren Remember Grandpa
CelloBello apologizes that the last beautiful paragraph of Alexandra Preucil’s blog was originally omitted. Be sure to read the corrected version. By Alexandra Preucil Assistant Concertmaster...
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Viva, Joel Krosnick! Viva, Astrid Schween!
A true cello icon from my generation of string quartets is stepping down – after a remarkable 42 seasons in the Juilliard Quartet, Joel Krosnick leaves at the end of next year (and continues as Chair...
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CelloStream Artist Master Class Series Fall 2015
Streamed live from Pierce Hall at New England Conservatory in Boston COMING THIS FALL 2015 Check back soon: date and time to be announced. LLUÍS CLARET GARY HOFFMAN MARCY ROSEN PETER STUMPF To tune in...
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Enjoy Your Cello Playing, Always
I was practicing prelude from Bach’s G major cello suite the other day when a thought suddenly occurred to me. I was having fun practicing! It certainly wasn’t the first time I had that experience,...
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Some Thoughts About My Bach Recordings
When anyone approaches the Bach Cello Suites, it’s natural to begin thinking about a “correct” way to play them. My teacher, Gregor Piatigorsky, used to say: “Never play for the cellists in the...
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Being The Music
What is it that makes one performance more compelling to an audience than another? Of course, there are many things that come into play, not the least of which is the esthetic taste of individual...
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HIP, To Be Fair
During my years in high school and college, discussions of what is now referred to as historically informed performance (HIP) could generally be summed up like this: a player belonged either to the...
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Thanks Bernie, You Saved My Cello Life!
By Lluís Claret I met Bernard Greenhouse for the first time at the First World Cello Congress in Washington D.C. in 1988. I invited him for the following year to give master classes at the school in...
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Reflections on the Legacy of Bernard Greenhouse
by Kate Dillingham I first met Mr. Greenhouse in 1986 when I was a scholarship student at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The Beaux Arts Trio gave a...
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The Greenhouse Effect
I feel like I have known Bernard Greenhouse for all of my life. Growing up in New York in the 1950’s and 1960’s, I heard him perform countless times with the Beaux Arts Trio and the Bach Aria Group. I...
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Developing Musicianship Through Chamber Music
In a typical private instrumental lesson, until a student has reached a fairly high technical level, much of the time in a lesson is spent on issues such as good hand positions, intonation, tone...
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So Why Is Improvisation So Important?
Like so many classically trained cellists, improvising was never something that I felt very comfortable trying. And although most of my professional life has been in the world of new music,...
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