All cello articles – Page 12
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NewsChristoph Croisé wins Alice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition cello section
This year's event takes place in Harbin, China between 23 July and 1 August in violin, cello and chamber disciplines
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ArticleSol Gabetta performs Elgar's Cello Concerto at Proms 2016
Sol Gabetta performs the fourth movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto at the 2016 BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo. Read: ‘There is a tiger inside my instrument': Sol Gabetta talks about her newly acquired cello Watch: Sol Gabetta’s cello transformed by light ...
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ArticleSol Gabetta and cello ensemble perform Piazzolla's Primavera Porteña
Sol Gabetta joins fellow cellists Ivan Monighetti, Monika Leskovar, Rafael Rosenfeld, Emil Rovner, Asier Polo, Kian Soltani and Astrig Siranossian to perform Astor Piazzolla's Primavera Porteña at the Solsberg Festival in 2015. Watch: Sol Gabetta's cello transformed by light show for BBC Proms Sol Gabetta is The ...
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Focus'Teachers should adapt their methods to students' individual techniques,' says cellist Sol Gabetta
The Strad's August 2016 cover star on the importance of being adaptable as a teacher
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NewsAlice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition names 6 cello finalists
This year's event takes place in Harbin, China between 23 July and 1 August in violin, cello and chamber disciplines
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NewsAlice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition names 12 cello semi-finalists
This year's event takes place in Harbin, China between 23 July and 1 August in violin, cello and chamber disciplines
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BlogsYo-Yo Ma and Chicago Symphony cellists dance using the Block Strap
In the video below cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Chicago Symphony cellists break into spontaneous dance while playing Johann Strauss II's Blue Danube Waltz in the foyer of Chicago's Symphony Center. The cellists are all using The Block Strap, designed by Mike Block, to support their instruments. Ma ...
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ArticleCellist Sol Gabetta performs - and sings - at the Proms 2016
Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta performs Peteris Vasks' Gramata cellam – Dolcissimo at the First Night of the Proms 2016 as an encore. The work includes the opportunity to hear Gabetta sing, while playing her instrument. Read: 'There is a tiger inside my instrument': Sol Gabetta talks about ...
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NewsThe Strad August 2016 issue is out now
Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta on how developing an individual technique helped her to find her voice
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Blogs'Even the best vibrato can't help a poor right-hand sound,' says cellist Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt
The German cellist and pedagogue discusses how to produce a strong and colourful tone
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NewsGeorge Enescu International Competition 2016 announces violin and cello candidates
The event takes place from 3 to 25 September 2016 in Romania in violin, cello and piano disciplines
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ArticleCapuçon brothers - violinist Renaud and cellist Gautier - perform together at the BBC Proms
The Capuçon brothers - violinist Renaud and cellist Gautier - perform Handel-Halvorsen's Passacaglia as an encore at the BBC Proms in London's Royal Albert Hall in 2011. Read: ‘As a musician you never finish learning,’ says cellist Gautier Capuçon Watch: Gautier Capuçon performs Thaïs Meditation at the ...
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FocusThere is a tiger inside this instrument’: Sol Gabetta talks about her newly acquired cello
The Strad’s August 2016 cover star speaks about adjusting to playing a c.1725 Gofriller, after twelve years with her beloved Guadagnini
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ArticleCellist performs Flight of the Bumblebee as endpin fails
Cellist Roberto Trainini manages to continue playing, not missing a single beat during his rendition of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, as his cello endpin slowly slips.Read: Finding the perfect cello endpin † and how to stop it slippingWatch: Shostakovich cello tailpiece explosion
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ArticleSol Gabetta's cello transformed by light show for BBC Proms
Cellist Sol Gabetta has teamed with 59 Productions to create 'Cello', a short film commissioned by the BBC Proms. The film features Gabetta performing the opening of Elgar's Cello Concerto as her 300-year-old Gofriller instrument is transformed by a series of animations which respond to and evolve ...
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ArticleCellist Frans Helmerson on bringing out the separate colour of each string
I love the specific colour of each string - it's not always about making the sound as equalised as possible. Each string has a different voice.'Kronberg Academy professor Frans Helmerson gives a cello masterclass on Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata, recorded at the International Musicians' Seminar, Prussia Cove. The student ...
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ArticleShostakovich cello tailpiece explosion
During a rehearsal with the Kislovodsk Philharmonic Orchestra, cellist Alexander Buzlov's energetic rendition of Shostakovich's First Concerto is too much for his tailpiece, which flies off. Buzlov continues the rehearsal with a borrowed instrument some time later.Watch: A violin bow hair disasterWatch: Violist Yuri Bashmet in tailpiece ...
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violincello by William Forster II, London, c.1785
This illustration of a cello by William Forster was published in The Strad, April 1979. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:William Forster II, generally referred to as 'Old Forster' and sometimes as 'Royal Forster', was born at Brampton, Cumberland in 1739, and died in London ...
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NewsAlice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition names 2016 competitors
This year's event takes place in Harbin, China between 23 July and 1 August in violin, cello and chamber disciplines
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ArticleStrapping in a cello on an Air Canada flight
As you know, a cello is a very dangerous passenger - Goffriller's like to jump off the chair during flights and eat the passengers!'Cellist Amit Peled films his 1733 Goffriller cello, which once belonged to Pablo Casals, being strapped securely to the seat next to him on an ...