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Online Performances
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Below are upcoming online events. Be sure to click on the source link for exact details of times, time zones, and ticket prices.
2 May 6:30 PM EDT
Music of The Heart, Join Us for an evening of Healing w/ OKCELLO
Okorie “OkCello” Johnson is an American cellist-songwriter whose artistry integrates cello performance, live-sound-looping, improvisation, and storytelling – all culminating in original compositions that collide classical with jazz, EDM, reggae, and funk.
His music is inspired by the exploration of African diasporic melodies and narratives and their intersection with people’s perceptions and assumptions about the classical and European nature of the cello. As well, his work with improvisation attempts to embody the phenomenon of wordless prayer.
He is a recipient of the Alliance Theatre’s 2018 Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab grant, and a 2018 Creative Loafing Readers’ Choice winner for Best Local Jazz Act. His sophomore album Resolve was named one of ArtsATL’s top local albums of 2018.
Tickets for the event are $15.
3 May 9 PM EDT
[BROADCAST] Sundays Live with LACMA: Encore Edition – Celebrating Cellist Lynn Harrell
Guillaume Sutre, violin
Movses Pogossian, violin
Richard O’Neill, viola
Lynn Harrell, celloFranz Schubert – String Quintet in C major, D. 956
Johann Sebastian Bach – Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007The LACMA Sundays Live encore edition scheduled for live stream at 6pm THIS Sunday, May 3, featuring baritone Ryan de Ryke and pianist Daniel Schlosberg, has been postponed until May 17. This Sunday we take the opportunity to celebrate the life and music of world-renowned cellist Lynn Harrell, who passed away earlier this week.
From a Sundays Live performance at LACMA’s historic Bing Theater on June 2, 2013, the UCLA Camarades – Guillaume Sutre and Movses Pogossian (violins), Richard O’Neill (viola), and Antonio Lysy (cello) – are joined by guest artist Lynn Harrell in Schubert’s String Quintet in C major, D. 956. As a special solo encore from an April 18, 2010 broadcast, Lynn Harrell performs Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007.
The broadcast will take place at 6 PM Pacific.
Watch the broadcast here: http://mixlr.com/sundayslive/
Link to donate: https://www.sundayslive.org/support
4 May 4 PM EDT
Music & Morsels: Beethoven and Beyond
Bring a cup of coffee/tea & pastry or create a wine/cheese happy hour and take a front row seat at your computer for a live, classical piano concert, followed by Q&A with the artist.
Beethoven and Beyond
Wednesday, May 4
1-2pm (PT), 2-3pm (MT), 3-4pm (CT), 4-5pm (ET)
on Zoom
Pianist Ian Scarfe welcomes special guest cellist James Jaffe for a program featuring some of the great masterpieces for cello and piano, starting with Beethoven’s first cello sonata! This Sonata was written in Berlin, for the King of Prussia, who was a cellist, and represents the first of the classical sonatas which starred the cello. They will also perform romantic and contemporary works, and discuss the evolution of music for this beloved instrument.
Save! Get “Early Bird” pricing before May 2nd
Tickets range from $12.50 to $15.
7 May (recording available following 7 May)
Sterling Elliott Plays Haydn
Sterling Elliott, the youngest Sphinx Competition Winner in history, is featured on Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major. New York Concert Review acclaims “(The) very fine young cellist Sterling Elliott played …with perfect intonation, style, and total involvement.” Inspired by two great works of art, living composer Anna Clyne’s Sound and Fury, sets the stage while Richard Strauss’ Metamorphosen powerfully concludes the evening.
Tickets are $30.
Online Programs and Events
25 April – 16 May
Indian Cello – Online Course by Jake Charkey
If you’ve ever wanted to know more about Indian music, are interested in expanding your range of extended techniques, are looking for new ways to think about improvising, want to work on your rhythm, or are just curious, please join me! (For Intermediate, Advanced, or Professional musicians)
Indian Cello: ONLINE GROUP CLASS
- MONDAY 4/25 – Intro to Indian cello left-hand techniques and exercises.
- MONDAY 5/02 – Intro to raga and alaap (unmetered improvisation) structure
- MONDAY 5/09 – Intro to composition in Hindustani music
- MONDAY 5/16 – Intro to working with cyclical time in Hindustani music.
If you have questions, please email Jake Charkey.
$100 for all four classes.
Register here.
30 April 8:30 PM EDT
Cello Portal Circle: A group experience of meditation and cello sound bath
This hour long experience is an opportunity for you to tap into and SOAK in the vibrations that you’ve been yearning for – vibrations like, peace, love, confidence, and trust.
I invite you to set up your space with candles, soft lighting and blankets, and anything else that would feel beautiful and nurturing to you. I recommend a space where you can move your body as it wishes, from seated to standing or laying down. I would love for you to have your camera on for this event, and to lean in to sharing what is present for you.
Tickets are $25.
13-14 May
2022 Chicago Jazz String Summit
On Friday, May 13 and Saturday, May 14, 2022 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. (CST), the 8th Chicago Jazz String Summit (CJSS) will once again present live performances showcasing jazz, improvised, and experimental music by internationally celebrated string players. Founded by critically acclaimed cellist and composer, Tomeka Reid, this year’s event will take place over the course of two evenings at Constellation Chicago with free string workshops held virtually in collaboration with Experimental Sound Studio.
CJSS is open to the public and the 2022 Artist Line-up includes: Leonor Falcon (Argentina/NYC), viola; Edmar Castaneda (Colombia/NYC), harp; Zara Zaharieva (Bulgaria/Chicago), violin; Kash Killion (SF), cello; Curtis Stewart (NYC), violin; and Jake Charkey (NYC), cello.
21 May, 22 October, 3 December 2022 | 6:00 PM–8:15 PM GMT
All About My Bow – Cellist Catherine Black
Our bow is our voice. We want it to breathe, speak, dance, sing and emote. This is an infinite subject but we do need to start somewhere! I feel we learn best with clear explanation, demonstration, focus and experimentation.
We will explore in varied ways, how our bow use can become increasingly natural to us – to become truly, an extension of your arm and hand. In going slowly and in detail, you will more truly find your own voice and feel able to express yourself more fully and authentically as a cellist & musician.
This series will build your understanding in stages. Some classes may be repeated too.
The instrument we play is large and physical and we need to know how to use energy well and understand movement because sound follows the movement.
I will send you materials for the class ahead of the day and then afterwards I will send documents that help you consolidate and develop our work. The groups will be small enough that we will be able to work individually too to check things are understood.
Venue: Zoom (waiting room opens at 5.45 PM for tuning)
Fee: £30 per class
Click here to register and get more information.
21 May (also 18 June, 16 July 2 PM BST)
Opening the Practice Toolbox with Gisela Meyer
About this event
- Do you feel you are spending a lot of time practicing with little result?
- Are you stuck learning a particular piece or passage?
- Can you “sort of“ play – or sing – your repertoire, you feel that there is more to be discovered and want to know what to do next?
- Don’t wait until you are frustrated and ready to start a bonfire with your music –join this 2-hour online workshop instead!
- Suitable for all musicians who work from sheet music.
- Saturday, once monthly, 11.00-13.00* Online platform: Zoom
- Schedule:
- Introduction and presentation of general methods – the three stages of practice 10-15 mins
- Individual sessions masterclass style (active participants) 15 – 20 mins each
- Q&A 15 mins
Prices: Active participant** £15 Passive participant £ 5
*A minimum of three active participants is necessary to run the workshop. If no more than three sign up, the workshop will only run for approximately 1.5 hours.
**Active participants: Please be prepared to perform a piece or part of a piece, ca 2 mins in length (or shorter), and send me a scan of the sheet music – with bar numbers marked in – prior to the workshop, so I can share it with the group.
Click here to purchase tickets
27-28 May 2022
2022 Washington International Competition for Strings
We hope you will join the FMMC Foundation for the 2022 Washington International Competition for Violin, Viola, and Cello! In its 69th year, the WIC provides renowned jurors offering individual advice and feedback to all semifinalists. See below for important deadlines, details, and more.
To apply, visit app.getacceptd.com/wic.
Dates and Information
- Application Open: September 15, 2021
- Application Deadline: February 1, 2022
- Semifinalists Notified: March 1, 2022
Semifinals take place in-person at George Washington University in Washington, DC, on both Friday, May 27, and Saturday, May 28, 2022, from 9 AM to 5 PM.
Finals take place in the Terrace Theater of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on May 29, 2022, at 2 PM.
For more details and prize information, visit the FMMC website.
24-26 June
New Directions Cello Festival
NDCF is back in action! Join us in person or virtually for a jam-packed weekend of innovative performances, workshops, discussion, and community.
For over 25 years, the New Directions Cello Festival has been dedicated to new and innovative uses of the cello. We’ve created an international forum for the exchange of music and ideas and fostered the growth of the cello in all styles beyond classical music. The cello can now be seen and heard in countless genres of music around the globe.
Stretch your playing and musicianship with a diverse offering of workshops in technique, improvisation, and creativity with a like-minded community of cellists.
Artists include Andrew Yee, Kaitlyn Raitz, Zachary Brown, Marika Hughes, Dave Haughey and Jeremy Harman.
For more information and registration, visit the New Directions Cello Festival website.
25 June, 17 September, 10 December
Online Timeline Series – Cellist Catherine Black
We all want to be as rounded a musician as possible and that’s a pretty big ask. We all have our preferences, and the groups & orchestras we play in, take us down certain paths which enrich and educate us, but sometimes we find a hole in our knowledge!
The Online Time Line Series has really found a place in your lives. Join us to learn more about a remarkable piece of music, its composer, an era, its style that may otherwise have passed you by. Musical architecture, polyphony, phrasing, the place of music in society are all a part of this quest for a better understanding and roundedness.
We will play, discuss & explore from your – the player’s point of view – a particular piece of music from the wide library of Unsung Heroes Cello Ensemble scores. These now range from Josquin and John Taverner (1490–1545), through to Tchaikovsky & Elgar and far into the twentieth century.
Though there are some restrictions online, we can all play using the mute button, though not as a group. This is an exciting opportunity for players to have the chance to play as many parts as they wish as we play together.
You may want to bring a notebook too and I do send out further notes to help you continue the development after the class. I see this as a massive opportunity for us to do detailed work that really moves you on, because we have these apparent restrictions.
Just a thought: you may think a particular composer, (say Josquin for instance) isn’t for you. Don’t rule things out too easily as all these people, whose music I want to share with you, have so much light to shine for us. As cellists, there is so much music we miss because we have so much already written for us. This is an opportunity that I personally have loved developing.
Your score is sent to you on booking your place and there are 15 places per class so we keep the lesson small, detailed and personal.
Do look at all the parts if you can, so you get under the skin of the music.
Venue: Zoom
Fee: £25 per class
Click here to register and get more information.
1-5 August 2022
2022 iConnect Program
Virtual Program:
August 1st–5th, 2022
Minimum Level: Intermediate (Breval Sonata in C Major, Op. 40 or equivalent).
There is no maximum level, and advanced students are welcome.
Platform: Zoom
Tuition: $150
The virtual iConnect experience will include daily private lessons with ICI staff instructors, group classes, and a masterclass with a guest clinician. Additionally, students will have complimentary access to livestream broadcasts of ICI masterclasses and recitals presented by world-class cellists, and opportunities for online social interaction and mentorship with older ICI students.
Click here for more information and to apply.
1-7 August 2022
WALTHAM FOREST CELLO FEST 2022
The 4th WALTHAM FOREST CELLO FEST 2022 in London invites you to the CELLO ACADEMY – Online Summer Cello Master Classes via Zoom / Skype.
Individual Online Cello Lessons will take place daily from Monday 1st August till Sunday 7th August 2022 @ cca 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (cca 55 minutes slots), online via Zoom or Skype.
FRANTIŠEK BRIKCIUS – CELLO, CHAMBER MUSIC
ANNA BRIKCIUSOVÁ – CELLO
Book your One-to-One Cello OnLine Summer Course now (limited number of accepted students). It includes FINAL online performance meeting.
All ages (4-99), levels (Initial Grade, Grades 1-8) and abilities (beginner, student, advanced) are welcome!
For more details follow #WFCF22 @WalhamForestCelloFest, book your course https://WalthamForestCelloFest.eventbrite.com and visit https://www.Brikcius.com/WalthamForestCelloFest/
Ongoing
Trad Cello – Tunes and Techniques with Natalie Haas
Let Natalie Haas teach you some tricks of the trade as well as some great melodies!
Natalie is one of the most sought after cellists playing traditional music today. She and Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser have toured as a duo for twenty years, wowing audiences at festivals and concerts worldwide with their unique sound.
In this series she will teach some bowing techniques when accompanying melody players before moving on to chords and arranging, finishing with some melodies that sit well on the cello.
Although this series is aimed at the cellist, many of the skills and techniques will sit as comfortably on any string instrument.
Click here to learn about membership options.
Win a Year of Free Lessons!
Enter a drawing for a year of free lessons via video exchange with cellist Mike Block. Click here to enter.
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