New classes – plus a chance to earn a free Cello Guild sticker! We recently launched our new Cello Guild site.
Please register before purchasing. If you experience any trouble, please don’t panic. Simply contact us and let us know the problem, and we will take care of it – and send you a free sticker for helping us!
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.
Expanding the Early Cello Repertoire: Elinor Frey’s Performances and Research
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Join us for the third Early Music Vancouver event at Green College this academic year. Early Music Vancouver presents music in ways that are attentive to and inspired by styles, conventions and conditions that existed when the music was first conceived.
For the past decade, cellist Elinor Frey has worked to make world premiere recordings and first editions of rarely-performed Baroque cello music. After spending a year in Italy on a Fulbright Fellowship, she began to integrate her musicological research on cello history and cello repertoire with her concert performances, recordings and publishing activities. Elinor’s Green College lecture will discuss the music that she has championed, especially cello works by Italian composers Angelo Maria Fiorè, Giuseppe Clemente Dall’Abaco, and Antoine Vandini, and French composer Jean Baur, as well as her process for contributing to her field.
Elinor Frey will be joined on the evening by a special guest, fellow musician Natalie Mackie, a member of Pacific Baroque Orchestra and the chamber ensemble “La Modestine.”
Free 3-day workshop Dec 12-14th at 11am PST
Music Theory on the Cello Workshop Holiday Edition for intermediate cellists and above.
We will be working on Do You Hear What I Hear- chords, theory, and improvising…making up your own parts.
Sign up: https://thecelloguru.com/free-workshop
16 December 4 PM EST
Meet the Cellist!
Tunelark cello instructor, Dr. Sera Smolen has a passion for musical improvisation. Join us to learn why she believes “there’s no such thing as a mistake!”
Gustav Mahler Prize 2023 – Cello Competition (Online)
The Gustav Mahler Institute Prague, in cooperation with the Gustav Mahler Philharmonic Jihlava, invite cellists of all nationalities up to the age of 30 to compete for the Gustav Mahler Award 2023. The competition will take place online via YouTube recordings. Many prizes have been prepared for a total of EUR 10,000. Each competitor will receive an expert jury evaluation. Please read the rules of the competition on our website. It’s easy.
Growth and creativity in your online studio: Cello Instructor Diane Chaplin
Tunelark cello instructor, Diane Chaplin has created a balance with online teaching, in-person teaching, and her own performance life. Come learn how she has done it! 2pm PT / 5pm ET
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.
Jonathan Simmons is currently pursuing a DMA at the University of North Carolina – Greensboro (UNCG) studying with Dr. Alex Ezerman. At UNCG he serves as the cellist of the graduate string quartet and as principal cellist in the UNCG Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras in Tennessee and South Carolina including in the Greenville, SC, Peace Center, and Powell Hall at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Jonathan was the second prize winner in the Tennessee Cello Workshop Competition and was also the winner of the 45th Annual Ruth Kern Young Artists Concerto Competition in Atlanta. He frequently performs at non-traditional venues including the Coca-Cola Space Science Center and the Bo Bartlett Center and for students of all ages.
Jonathan has performed with the Columbus (GA) Symphony, the LaGrange Symphony, and the Albany Symphony. He has collaborated in recital with such musicians as pianist Alexey Trushechkin, first prize winner of the 2019 Liszt International Piano Competition, and renowned cello soloist Wendy Warner. As a passionate teacher, Jonathan is the author of the educational Cello Life Blog and has experience teaching live and online lessons to students as far away as Australia. To connect with Jonathan, visit his website.
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Tunelark cello instructor, Diane Chaplin has created a balance with online teaching, in-person teaching, and her own performance life. Come learn how she has done it! 2pm PT / 5pm ET
