Online Performances
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Below are upcoming online events. Be sure to click on the source link for exact details, time zones, and ticket prices.
17 July 8 AM EDT
Goethe Institut Vietnam – Concert: Drifting Intervals
There are always women who transcend limits to freely express themselves and their creativities. They learn about different cultures and enrich their own experiences to make their life more interesting. “Drifting Intervals” is a music project that includes five female composers/performers. From the idea of artist Lương Huệ Trinh, material in each commissioned composition is the personal outlook of one composer on cultural exchange Vietnam-Germany. Not only that, delicacy and sensitivity of these artists will also be shown in the improvisation section. The concert is performed from Vietnam, Germany, France and Ghana.
Artists:
- Eva Zöllner, accordionist
- Ngô Trà My, lecturer and Đàn Bầu soloist
- Séverine Ballon, cellist and composer
- Ute Wassermann, voice artist, composer, improviser
- Lương Huệ Trinh, multimedia composer, and electronics improviser
Click here for more information. Click here for the Facebook event page.
17 July 4 PM EDT
Aroma Presents: 1+2 Cello Afternoon
Hello! We are Aroma Duo! We want to invite you to our inaugural virtual Groupmuse performance. We will joined by our dear friend, and fantastic cellist, Timothy Paek. We will be performing a large variety cello works by Vivaldi, Mozart, Shostakovich, Schnittke and more! Please join us for an afternoon surrounded by the sound of the not one, but two cellos!
Program
D. Shostakovich- 5 Pieces For 2 Violin and Piano: Prelude (arr. for two cellos)
J. Offenbach- Duos for 2 Cello, Op.54 No. 2
F. A. Kummer – 6 Duos, Op. 156 No. 6
W. A. Mozart- 12 Variations in C on the French Song, “Ah, Vous dirai-je Maman”
A. Vivaldi- Cello Concerto for 2 Cellos in G minor
A. Schnittke- Life with an Idiot Tango
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18 July 2 PM EDT
Tree of Life
In this beautifully produced HD documentary and performance film, Georgy Gusev and Natalia Pavlova present music for voice and cello, including a pair of Gusev’s original compositions, performed in front of a live audience in the beautiful setting of Moscow’s Art Centre.
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Online Programs and Events
Ends 15 August 11:59 PM EDT (Entries accepted from 18 July, noon New York time)
Contest: Compose the Memorable Musical Fragment in The Cellist’s Notebook
The winner will receive a signed copy of The Cellist’s Notebook and a Cello Museum mug.
We are pleased to announce a contest to accompany our upcoming Cello Book Club meeting with author Kittie Lambton to discuss her book, The Cellist’s Notebook.
Contest
The contest is to see who can compose the most fitting musical fragment of Leni’s cello and piano piece that Emily discovers in the notebook. Kittie Lambton describes the work as:
“the little melody that triggers memory and is so very important in my book. This need not be a long-winded music composition but just a fragment. Just enough to be timeless and generational.”
How to Enter the Contest
- Create a new, original work.
- The entry may be a fragment or an entire piece to fit the above description and the story in The Cellist’s Notebook.
- Instrumentation: cello and piano.
- Send a PDF score and MP3 recording. The recording can be digital or played on cello and piano.
- Submissions will be accepted from the next book club meeting (18 July 2021) through 11:59 PM, New York time, 15 August 2021.
- Send your PDF and MP3 files to us at curator(at)cellomuseum.org
Prizes
- The winner will receive a signed copy of The Cellist’s Notebook and a Cello Museum mug.
- Two runners-up will each win a Cello Museum cello sticker.
- The Cello Museum and Kittie Lambton will share the winning pieces on their websites, social media, and emails.
Two runners-up will each win a Cello Museum cello sticker.
Judging of Contest Entries
After the contest deadline, three judges, including author Kittie Lambton and two members of The Cello Museum team, will vote to determine the winners. The Cello Museum will then contact the winners to send out prizes.
Please Note
By entering the competition, you give The Cello Museum and Kittie Lambton permission to publicize your piece.
All entries must be received by 11:59 PM (New York time) on 15 August 2021.
5 June – 1 August
The 3rd WALTHAM FOREST CELLO FEST 2021
Most of the events are in June, and the Cello Academy is from 26 July – 1 August. Click here for the entire program.
Events include:
- WFCF Cello Concerts
- Underground Lunchtime Recitals (in the historic Victoria Line carriage)
- Cello Weekend
- Make Music Day
The CELLO ACADEMY – Online Summer Cello Master Classes via Zoom / Skype: 26 July – 1 August
Individual Online Cello Lessons will take place daily from Monday 26th July till Sunday 1st August 2021 @ ca 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (ca 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 #WFCF21 @WalthamForestCelloFest, book your course here.
21 June – 16 July
VIRTUAL SUMMER CELLO FESTIVAL
Virtual Summer Cello Festival
Click here for more information on the inaugural year of this festival.
10, 17 July 2 PM PDT
At Home with Amos Yang
Amos Yang
You’re a Musical Athlete
Two Saturday sessions: July 10 and 17, 2 p.m.
Join San Francisco Symphony cellist Amos Yang for an hour on two Saturdays in July to gain body awareness, musical confidence, and to learn how to channel stress into more effective and satisfying playing.
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Don’t let staying at home stop you from improving your music skills! Amateur Music Network online workshops bring master musicians into your home to share their knowledge and expertise.
All you need to participate is a computer or other device connected to the internet. All registered participants will receive a Zoom link on the day of the workshop.
To learn more about the workshop, visit the Workshop Information Page.
Admission to each session is $25. You may opt to attend both sessions by purchasing the series for $40.
No one is turned away for lack of funds! Contact info@amateurmusic.org to request a reduction of the fee.
10-12 July
Bow hold, shifting, and vibrato for soft joints and different hand shapes with Shu-Yi Scott
Shu-Yi Scott
Price: $250.00
See contact information below to sign up.
This online SAA Enrichment Course is held online with a maximum of 20 registrants. For more information, visit the SAA website.
12-18 July
Chosen Vale International Virtual Cello Seminar
Chosen Vale International Cello Seminar
Offering a high-calibre educational and mentorship structure for exceptionally gifted artists, the seminar participants will have access to daily cello lessons, masterclasses, workshops in performance practice (baroque, classical, contemporary, and electroacoustic musics), corporeal wellness and individualized career development; as well as solo and chamber music instruction. With the ever-changing landscape of the music field, The Chosen Vale International Cello Seminar is here to support a community of cellists ready to jump head-first into their artistry, bound with hope. The Chosen Vale International Cello Seminar will provide daily lessons, ensemble coaching, masterclasses and workshops over the two-week course period. Led by Seth Parker Woods, the world-renowned artist faculty include:Anthony Arnone – Elinor Frey – Katinka Kleijn – Nick Photinos – Rhonda Rider – Seth Parker Woods
For more information and to apply, visit the Chosen Vale website.
12 July – 1 August
International Cello Institute 2021 Auditing Program
Join the International Cello Institute this summer from July 12 through August 1 for their 2021 Auditing Program. A spectacular three-week program featuring select student performances along with masterclasses, workshops, and presentations given by internationally renowned pedagogues.
14, 21, 28 July 3 PM PDT
Music Theory for Cellists!
Come learn the basics! This is theory that centers on what you need to know to make your cello playing better through musical knowledge…starting with how to build a major scale and a major arpeggio…into moving through different keys and key signatures…into basic rhythms and how to practice them.
Your cello playing will be better when you have finished this really cool Zoom class, guaranteed. July 14, 21 and 28. Wednesdays @3pm PDT. 50 minutes.
The class is $147. Register here.
15 July 7 PM EDT
Exeter Community Library, PA – Conversation with Best-Selling Author Daniel Silva
Look for our review next week and attend a Zoom meeting with best-selling author Daniel Silva via the Exeter Community Library program.
The Exeter Community Library is pleased to welcome author Daniel Silva in ‘Exeter Library Presents: Daniel Silva,’ a virtual conversation with the New York Times bestselling author, at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 15, 2021 via Zoom. Planned in coordination with Daniel Silva himself, the program acts as a fundraising event for the library.
Daniel Silva has been called his generation’s finest writer of international intrigue and one of the greatest American spy novelists ever. Since his debut book, The Unlikely Spy, released in 1997, all of Silva’s books have been New York Times and international bestsellers. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages and are published around the world.
Silva follows up his acclaimed #1 New York Times bestsellers The Order, The New Girl, and The Other Woman with this riveting, action-packed tale of espionage and suspense featuring art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon. In The Cellist, the fatal poisoning of a Russian billionaire sends Gabriel Allon on a dangerous journey across Europe and into the orbit of a musical virtuoso who may hold the key to the truth about his friend’s death.
The program will be moderated by Jamie Gangel, Special Correspondent, CNN.
Signed copies of ‘The Cellist’ and an Exeter Community Library mug are provided with $35 ticket purchase, whether attendees choose to participate in the program at the library or from their own homes. All proceeds benefit the Exeter Community Library.
To purchase a ticket for the event, patrons may visit the library in person to pay $35 via cash, check, or credit card; or they may visit www.berkslibraries.org/events/conversatio
17 July
n-daniel-silva to pay via Venmo. One week before the event, paid registrants will receive an e-mailed link to the event.
18 July 5 PM BST
The Cellist’s Notebook Discussion
July 2021 Cello Book Club
July 2021 Cello Book Club
Kittie Lambton: The Cellist’s Notebook
We are thrilled that author Kittie Lambton has agreed to join us for our online book club meeting at 5 PM BST 18 July 2021.
In conjunction with our book club meeting, we are running a contest to composer the memorable musical fragment portrayed in this book! Click here for details.
2-6 August (15 July early application deadline)
Cincinnati Young Artists Virtual Cello Academy
Virtual Cello Academy Session II: Intermediate/Early Advanced registration is now open. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to study with world class faculty from the comfort of your home August 2-6, 2021! Early registration deadline is June 15th.
SESSION II: August 2-6, 2021
VCA Intermediate Director Avi Friedlander will be joined on the faculty by Zachary Sweet, Melissa Solomon, Alex Croxton & Rick Mooney, for VCA Session II: Intermediate/Early Advanced. Don’t miss out on a great week of all things cello for students in Suzuki Book 4-10 or equivalent.
9-13 August (9 July application deadline)
String Festival @ Baylor University
Now accepting applications.
26-31 August (1 July application deadline)
New Millennium International Online and Hybrid Master Classes
The New Millennium International Chamber Music Festival is constantly adapting to COVID-19. We are happy to announce that in 2021, the master classes of the NMICMF are offering as many opportunities and as much flexibility as possible to its students.
Committed to offering generous support to artists and music students during this difficult time, the 2020 edition offered a one-session online full-scholarship masterclass for highly talented participants with our world-renowned faculty.
This year, we will offer the same opportunity PLUS the option to participate in the full course (a total of three lessons) online, or if the situation allows, in person in Budapest.
Piano: Josu de Solaun (Spain)
Violin: Miranda Liu (USA/Hungary)
Cello: Bartosz Koziak (Poland)
Flute: Noémi Győri (Hungary/UK)
Clarinet: Csaba Pálfi (Hungary)
Harp: Klára Babel (Hungary)Contact: nmicmf@yahoo.com
Application fee: €30 View details here.
19-23 January (29 November application deadline)
International Instrument-making Competition (Cello)
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Musée de la musique/Philharmonie de Paris and Talents & Violon’celles
From 19 to 23 January 2022 at the Philharmonie de Paris
In January 2022, in partnership with the association Talents & Violon’celles, the Musée de la musique/ Philharmonie de Paris is organising an international instrument-making competition exclusively dedicated to the cello. Programmed at the same time as the 10th String Quartet Biennial, this event follows in the tradition of the many international instrument-making competitions that Paris has hosted.
Promoting contemporary excellence and developing future talents
Open to professionals as well as to students of instrument-making schools, the Talent Makers Instrument-making Competition is composed of two different parts organised in parallel:
Jury and Prizes
A jury composed of eminent musicians and personalities from the world of instrument-making will judge the craftsmanship of the participants as expressed by the instruments themselves and how they sound. Six prizes will be awarded to professionals, and three prizes will be awarded to students with one instrument joining the collection of facsimiles at the Musée de la musique. The finals and semi-finals will be organised as a real rendezvous with the public of the 10th String Quartet Biennial.
Opening date for submissions: now opened
Closing date for submissions: Monday 29 november 2021Competition rules and Submission of applications avalable soon
Contact: lutheriecompetition@philharmoniedeparis.fr
For more information, click here.
Ongoing
Cello Yoga with Mea the Creative Cellist
How to Play Cello with more Focus, Flexibility and Freedom
with less tension
“without increasing your practice time”
EXCLUSIVE TRAINING WITH MEA THE CREATIVE CELLIST
✅ How to achieve laser focus so that you can practice for longer with less tension and pain no matter what your level of cello expertise
✅ How to increase endurance and flexibility with research based methods even if you have physical limitations, injuries or find it hard to concentrate✅ How to design creative practice sessions so that you can have more fun and time for the rest of your life
Click here for more information.
Journaling With Cello For Grounding & Positivity
The Wong Janice
Welcome to this 8-day course on Insight Timer, which focuses on journaling with cello for grounding and positivity. Over the course of seven days, The Wong Janice will take you through seven different themes, each with its own unique writing prompts and with the beautiful sounds of deep cello music, designed to inspire you to write freely with full awareness from your heart while harnessing the power of journaling for healing.
The themes covered are:
Gratitude
Empowerment
Freedom
Love
Acceptance
Forgiveness
SurrenderBy the end of the course, you will have covered seven journaling exercises, and with daily practice, learn to express yourself better and understand who you are at a higher level, bringing more stability in your life, and feeling more grounded and calm from within.
For more information on this and other courses by The Wong Janice, click here.
Trad Cello – Tunes and Techniques with Natalie Haas
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!
ArtistWorks
Enter a drawing for a year of free lessons via video exchange with cellist Mike Block. Click here to enter.
Previous Concerts Still Available
Available through Friday 30 July 2021 (from 7 May 7:30 PM BST)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chamber Concert – Cello Jewels, Aleksei Kiseliov, Cello, and Alasdair Beatson, Piano
Program:
Beethoven Variations in F major on ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen’ for Cello and Piano
Beethoven Cello Sonata No5
R Strauss Cello Sonata
Dvořák Silent Woods for Cello and PianoEach player in the RSNO is a star in their own right – and when you get them on their own, they’ve got some great stories to tell! For the RSNO’s Principal Cello Aleksei Kiseliov, that means teaming up with pianist Alasdair Beatson in the ebullient Cello Sonata by the youthful Richard Strauss. Add Beethoven at his most exuberant, plus a moment of sheer magic from the Czech forests, and you’ve got a concert that’s small in scale but huge in personality.
This performance was recorded by BBC Radio 3.
Household ticket: $21. Price excludes VAT (added at the point of purchase).
Click here to purchase tickets and get more information.
Available through 31 October 2021
DWB (Driving While Black)
Driving While Black
Dwb is the premiere filmed version of the opera by the same name Susan Kander and Roberta Gumbel. Presented by UrbanArias, now celebrating its 10th anniversary. UrbanArias is an opera company dedicated to producing short – 90 minutes or less – contemporary operas.
A solo chamber opera, dwb derives much of its power from the voice of soprano Karen Slack, starring as the various mothers. Slack, who has sung with the Metropolitan Opera and Washington National Opera, among other prestigious opera houses, moves easily from lyric to dramatic sounds and offers theatrical skills to boot.
A two-musician ensemble – composed of cellist Rosanna Butterfield and percussionist Eric Plewinski – is conducted by Robert Wood. Known as an innovator in opera, Wood founded UrbanArias in 2009.
Du’Bois A’keen directed and choreographed the film; Camry A’Keen was the creative director. Both have drawn on their extensive operatic, choreographic, and film backgrounds to bring elements of modern dance and music video production.
Tickets are $15 and allow unlimited viewing through October 31.
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