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CelloChat: Darrett Adkins

Darrett Adkins performs around the world as a soloist and chamber musician. He has performed in US premieres of concertos by Donatoni, Wallin, and Nordheim, as well as world premieres of concertos by Andrew Mead and Jeffrey Mumford. He gave the first NY performance of Berio's Sequenza XIV and the US premiere of Messiaen's Concerto for Four with the Aspen Festival Orchestra. From 2018 to 2019, he undertook two 14-city tours of China, and alongside Robert Spano, premiered Stephen Hartke's Da Pacem, a cello concerto co-commissioned by Aspen and Oberlin.

By CelloBello Webmaster|2023-01-20T07:27:10-05:00January 20th, 2023|Categories: CelloChats, Virtual Events|Tags: Darrett Adkins, Oberlin Conservatory, the Juilliard School|

CelloChat: Natasha Brofsky – Get To Know Your Surroundings: How to Use the Score to Inspire You in the Practice Room

Natasha Brofsky is cellist of the Naumburg Award-winning Peabody Trio, which has performed on leading chamber music series throughout the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. The trio has been heard on numerous radio broadcasts, and has recorded on the New World, CRI, and Artek labels. She has performed as a guest artist with numerous ensembles, including the Takacs, Prazak, Cassatt, Norwegian, Jupiter, Ying, and Borromeo quartets.

By CelloBello Webmaster|2022-09-21T13:02:07-04:00September 21st, 2022|Categories: CelloChats, Virtual Events|Tags: the Juilliard School, Peabody Trio|

Conversation with Joel Krosnick (March, 2005)

Interview by Tim Janof Born in Connecticut to a family of enthusiastic amateur musicians, Joel Krosnick has been cellist of the Juilliard String Quartet since 1974. With pianist Gilbert Kalish, his sonata partner for over twenty years, he performs annual recitals at the Merkin and Weill Halls in New York, and has recorded much of the sonata repertoire, including the complete Beethoven and Brahms Sonatas and Variations, and works by Poulenc, Prokofiev, Carter, Debussy, Janácek, Shapey, Cowell, and Hindemith. Mr. Krosnick's principal teachers were William D'Amato, Luigi Silva, Jens Nygaard, and Claus Adam, whom he succeeded in the Juilliard String Quartet. While at Columbia University, he began his lifelong commitment to contemporary music and has performed and premiered many new works, including Donald Martino's Cello Concerto, Richard Wernick's Cello Concerto [...]

By Tim Janof|2024-01-03T14:06:45-05:00October 27th, 2019|Categories: Internet Cello Society Archive, Chamber Music, Interviews, Performance|Tags: Juilliard String Quartet, Schumann Concerto, string quartet, the Juilliard School, Joel Krosnick|

CelloStream Artist Master Class Series 2013-2014

Streamed live from Pierce Hall at New England Conservatory in Boston Lluis Claret Thursday, 26 September 2013 7:00 pm-9:30 pm Ralph Kirshbaum Monday, 21 October 2013 7:00 pm-9:30 pm Pieter Wispelwey Tuesday, 11 February 2014 7:00 pm-9:30 pm Gary Hoffman Tuesday, 8 April 2014 2:00 pm-5:00 pm […]

By Blogmaster|2013-05-30T18:45:46-04:00May 30th, 2013|Categories: Artistic Vision, CelloStream, Chamber Music, Performance, Repertoire, Self Discovery, Teaching, Videos|Tags: Peabody Trio, Boston, cello, Streamed Artist Master Class, Borromeo String Quartet, cellostream, cellobello, Taos School of Music, Kim, Katz, Tchaikovsky Competition, Yeesun, the Juilliard School, NEC, watch live, New England Conservatory, Yellow Barn Festival, 2012-2013, Paul, Cleveland Quartet, announcement, artists, cello faculty, live-stream, Laurence, Brofsky, Master Class, Lesser, Natasha, Pierce Hall|

That Sound — by Selma Gokcen

"Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other in the integration of the human being because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the Soul on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the Soul of him who is rightly educated truly graceful." – Plato I wonder whether most of us, performers and listeners alike, fall in love with the sound of an instrument before we even know how and why it has such an effect upon us. The primacy of sound—its essential fascination—indicates a deep internal need for the connection to life, first of all in the womb where the heartbeat of the mother is heard, then after birth as the newborn is attuned to the sound of its mother’s voice, and [...]

By Selma Gokcen|2017-10-09T01:59:27-04:00July 15th, 2012|Categories: Alexander Technique for Cellists, Artistic Vision, Playing Healthy, Self Discovery|Tags: Alexander Technique, Gokcen, creativity, Selma, cello, Production, cellobello, Alexander, performers, Sound, the Juilliard School, emotion, Vibrations, Technique, perspective|