5 Tricks and Treats to help you Cello-brate Halloween

5 Tricks and Treats to Help You Cello-brate Halloween

Halloween is only 10 days away. Here are five cello tricks and treats to help you celebrate. 1. Tricks! Learn How to Make Halloween Sound Effects on Your Cello We love this video by Liz, a professional multi-genre cellist in Austin, Texas, from Cellomoji. Watch to learn how to create

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Online Concerts & Events October 14

Online Cello Events – 14 October

Help Us Celebrate – Enter for a Chance to Win a Prize –   Please help us celebrate by entering for a chance to win a prize from our limited-edition product line. Every Sunday for four weeks, we have prize drawings (25 September, 2 October, and 9 October, 16 October). This

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NYWC Spotlight- Leanna Primiani

NYWC Spotlight: Leanna Primiani

We are excited to continue our collaboration with the New York Women Composers. This month, we spotlight Leanna Primiani. Bio from Leanna Primiani’s website: Leanna Primiani is an award-winning composer who aims to bring together the collective experiences of the many for greater understanding. Her music asks listeners to consider

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October 2022 Curator's Corner

Curator’s Corner: October 2022

October at the Cello Museum – What’s happening this month at the Cello Museum? Find out here. Thank you for joining us at the Cello Museum. It’s October, and we’ve got a very busy month ahead. We’re celebrating Black History Month (UK), welcoming James to the Cello Museum team, looking

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2nd birthday

Happy Birthday, Cello Museum!

Happy Birthday, Cello Museum! Scroll down to enter our prize drawing for a chance to win prizes! We love Cello Birthdays, and now it’s time to celebrate our own, Cello Museum Birthday! It’s hard to believe that we’ve been online for two years now as an online museum – the

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NYWC Spotlight- Alyssa Reit

NYWC Spotlight: Alyssa Reit

We are excited to continue our collaboration with the New York Women Composers. This month, we spotlight Alyssa Reit. Bio from Alyssa Reit’s website: “Alyssa’s compositions and arrangements have been played at events sponsored by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Eastman School of Music, and the Greenwich Symphony, as well as

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Queen Elizabeth II and the Cello

Queen Elizabeth II and the Cello

There have been many tributes to Queen Elizabeth II (21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022), and we wanted to add one of our own – featuring her connections with the cello. Perhaps the first link that springs to mind is that one of her sons, now King Charles III,

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Curator’s Corner: September 2022

September at the Cello Museum – What’s happening this month at the Cello Museum? Find out here. Thank you for joining us at the Cello Museum. It’s September, and we’ve got a very busy month ahead. We celebrate our second birthday, talk to deaf cellist Paola Beals, thank our Cello

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Postcards from Erica August 2022

Postcards from Erica August 2022

Trying to find unaccompanied cello music by Black composers? Look no further. This is the seventh installment in my series of digital postcards about unaccompanied works by Black composers. In selecting the music every month, I keep in mind orchestra directors and students in search of contest pieces, teachers seeking

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Meet One of the Greatest Cellists of Our Time Nancy Green

Meet One of the Greatest Cellists of Our Time: Nancy Green

This month we spoke with internationally acclaimed recording artist and cello soloist, Nancy Green. She has been likened to cellists who have become household names, including Mstislav Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, Leonard Rose, and Jacqueline du Pré. In the full interview, Nancy and our curator, Brenda Neece, covered a wide range of

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