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The Amit Peled Peabody Cello Gang: Closing the Circle — by Amit Peled

Originally posted on Violinist.com. As a student, I was fortunate enough to experience the magic of performing music on stage with my great mentors Bernard Greenhouse, Boris Pergamenschikow, and Laurence Lesser, as well as see how each of them balanced their performing and teaching careers. The difference between listening to them explain how to create a phrase and actually forming that phrase with them on stage was huge and significant. Performing with my teachers was a vastly more effective lesson than a one-on-one in a studio, teaching me “on-the-spot” artistic decision-making, amending each performance to fit the energy of the hall. Ever since those transformative and magical moments, I knew that I would become a teacher and pass on the tradition of sharing music with my own students on stage. [...]

By Amit Peled|2018-12-19T18:15:59-05:00January 6th, 2018|Categories: Artistic Vision, Beyond the Traditional, Chamber Music, Interpersonal Relationships, Repertoire, Teaching, Technology, Videos|Tags: laurence lesser, Amit Peled, peabody institute, communication, Bach, Bernard Greenhouse, recording, Teaching, nerves, cello ensemble, Popper, performance, spontaneity, improvement|

The DO (C) That Changed My Life — by Amit Peled

Could one note be so significant in a musician’s life? At age fifteen, before entering a routine weekly music history class at the Telma-Yellin High School for the Arts in Tel Aviv, Israel, my answer would have been definitely NO. However, in that lesson we learned about the romantic period piano trio form, and our teacher decided to play a record of the slow movement of the Dvorak Trio in F minor op. 65. As a young cellist I must embarrassingly admit that I only knew the Dvorak cello concerto, the ultimate dream of every cellist to study and perform. Back to the classroom, we, the 'cool' boys sitting in the last row, were trying to pass on the time talking behind the teacher's back, hoping to catch an eye glimpse from one of the cool girls—the usual teenager stuff... [...]

By Guest Blogger|2017-10-30T04:49:31-04:00January 1st, 2016|Categories: Bernard Greenhouse, Interpersonal Relationships|Tags: CelloBlog, Greenhouse Tribute, Amit Peled, Bernard Greenhouse, cellobello|