Technique: the connections between cello and voice

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Cellist and operatic baritone Matthew Sharp shares tips on how to embody and inhabit your sound

Singing is a fundamental and elemental part of what it is to be human; the ability to sing and thereby to express ourselves lies within every one of us. Playing a stringed instrument is similar to singing – we work with breath, flow and imagination ‘from the inside out’…

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