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ReviewReview round-up: BBC Proms 2021
Peter Quantrill attends the cream of the strings crop during this year’s Proms season at the Royal Albert Hall
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FocusGuy Johnston: Life Lessons
The British cellist reflects on transformative experiences in the US and returning as a teacher to his old student haunts
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Focus‘That pre-performance adrenaline rush made me feel alive again’ – Guy Johnston
Ahead of his streamed chamber music festival at Hatfield House, the British cellist shares his experience of performing for online broadcast during the lockdown
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ReviewConcert review: Wigmore Hall, 8-24 June 2020
Tim Homfray reviews performances held at the London venue for an online-only audience
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FeatureHow are string soloists coping with the coronavirus lock down?
As social distancing causes unprecedented disruption to concert schedules around the world, several soloists share their coping strategies and plans for the future.
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BlogsTwo 1st-class seats only option for cellist on American Airlines flight
Guy Johnston found himself presented with a compulsory extremely expensive option when booking to travel with his cello on a regional US flight
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Mendelssohn Variations Op. 17
British cellist Guy Johnston talks about dialogue, contrast and sense of line in the German composer’s Classical–Romantic work
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VideoAll four BBC Young Musician winning cellists on stage together
In this video filmed at this year’s BBC Proms, Giovanni Sollima’s Violoncelles, vibrez! is performed by the four cellist past winners of the BBC Young Musician competition, Natalie Clein (1994), Guy Johnston (2000), Laura van der Heijden (2012) and Sheku Kanneh-Mason (2016). The performance took place as part of a ...
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ReviewGuy Johnston: Tecchler’s Cello – From Cambridge To Rome
The Strad Issue: December 2017Description: Music in celebration of a cello’s 300th birthdayMusicians: Guy Johnston (cello), Sheku Kanneh- Mason (cello), Magnus Johnston (violin), Tom Poster (piano), Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Carlo Rizzari Works: GJEILO Serenity; DAVID MATTHEWS Ein Celloleben; ...
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VideoGuy Johnston plays Bach in King's College Chapel on a 1714 cello by David Tecchler
British cellist Guy Johnston plays the prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 in the chapel of King’s College, Cambridge. His cello was built in Rome in 1714 by David Tecchler and is the subject of an ongoing project begun in 2014 by Johnston to ...
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ReviewHolt: Third Quartet, Dennehy: The Weather of It, Gilbert: Haven of Mysteries
The Strad Issue: August 2017Description: Exciting performances of new music captured live in London Musicians: Jack Quartet, Doric Quartet, Carducci Quartet, Guy Johnston (cello)Composer: Holt, Dennehy, GilbertCatalogue Number: NMC NMCD216 Wigmore Hall shows its commitment to developing chamber music repertoire with Bracing ...
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ArticleGuy Johnston breaks cello string at BBC Young Musician 2000
I had this dream - which turned out to be a premonition - that I was going to break a string at the competition - and it actually happened!'British cellist Guy Johnston talks about the moment that his string snapped at the live televised 2000 BBC Young Musician ...