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CelloChat Adult Learner Series: Carol Ou – Efficient Use of Your Practice Time

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A versatile artist, cellist Carol Ou is known for her “fiery, marvelous” and “meltingly melodic outpourings” (Boston Globe) and her “wonderfully pure cello tone and incisive technique.” (The Strad) A founding member of the L'Eveque Trio, Carol was a member of the Carpe Diem String Quartet and a longtime duo partner of legendary violinist James Buswell. Her solo and chamber music concerts have taken her to prestigious concert venues across the globe. Other collaborations have been with renowned artists Hillary Hahn, Timothy Eddy, Pascal Rogé, András Schiff, Raul Juarena, and Jayme Stone at the Marlboro Music Festival, Summerfest La Jolla, Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Nevada Chamber Music Festival, Cremona International Music Festival and Academy, and other noted music festivals.

CelloChat: Taeguk Mun

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A recipient of the 2016 Janos Starker Award, laureate of the 2nd Queen Elisabeth Cello Competition and 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition, as well as the first prizewinner of Pablo Casals International Cello Competition and the 3rd Andre Navarra International Cello Competition, South Korean cellist TAEGUK MUN enjoys an international career as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and an educator.

CelloKids: Musicianship Through the Body – Fresh Start, Part 1 with Jeremy Dittus

Our CelloKids classes utilize a unique curriculum that fuses the Dalcroze Method with musicianship on the cello. In these classes, we will relate movement experiences and musical concepts together so that students begin to understand these ideas in an organic way. Then, in the follow-up class, our cello faculty will help the students find ways to adapt this embodied information to their cello playing, making the learning come full circle: sound-ear-body-sight-cello. This curriculum is being pioneered and co-taught by Horacio Contreras, Jeremy Dittus, and Andrea Yun. Classes will be offered in both English and Spanish.

CelloKids: Musicianship Through the Body – Fresh Start, Part 2 with Andrea Yun and Horacio Contreras

Our CelloKids classes utilize a unique curriculum that fuses the Dalcroze Method with musicianship on the cello. In these classes, we will relate movement experiences and musical concepts together so that students begin to understand these ideas in an organic way. Then, in the follow-up class, our cello faculty will help the students find ways to adapt this embodied information to their cello playing, making the learning come full circle: sound-ear-body-sight-cello. This curriculum is being pioneered and co-taught by Horacio Contreras, Jeremy Dittus, and Andrea Yun. Classes will be offered in both English and Spanish.

CelloChat: Lluís Claret – The Joy of Practicing!

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Born in 1951 in Andorra la Vella to exiled Andorran parents, LLUÍS CLARET began his musical studies at the age of nine. In 1964 he moved to Barcelona, Spain, where he won major distinctions at the Conservatory of the Liceu, and began working with Enric Casals. He continued his studies in France, Italy, and in the United States, with masters such as Maurice Gendron and Radu Aldulescu. Claret has said that his personal meetings with György Sebök, Eva Janzer, and Bernard Greenhouse were also implemental in the development of his artistic personality. Claret’s professional career was launched into the international spotlight after he took first prizes at the Pablo Casals International Cello Competition in 1976 and the Rostropovich Cello Competition in 1977.

CelloKids: Musicianship Through the Body – Discovery, Part 1 with Jeremy Dittus

Our CelloKids classes utilize a unique curriculum that fuses the Dalcroze Method with musicianship on the cello. In these classes, we will relate movement experiences and musical concepts together so that students begin to understand these ideas in an organic way. Then, in the follow-up class, our cello faculty will help the students find ways to adapt this embodied information to their cello playing, making the learning come full circle: sound-ear-body-sight-cello. This curriculum is being pioneered and co-taught by Horacio Contreras, Jeremy Dittus, and Andrea Yun. Classes will be offered in both English and Spanish.

CelloKids: Musicianship Through the Body – Discovery, Part 2 with Andrea Yun and Horacio Contreras

Our CelloKids classes utilize a unique curriculum that fuses the Dalcroze Method with musicianship on the cello. In these classes, we will relate movement experiences and musical concepts together so that students begin to understand these ideas in an organic way. This curriculum is being pioneered and co-taught by Horacio Contreras, Jeremy Dittus, and Andrea Yun. Classes will be offered in both English and Spanish.

CelloChat: Han Bin Yoon

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Cellist Han Bin Yoon has captivated audiences internationally with his emotional performances and rich tone. A top prize winner at the Young Concert Artist International Auditions and the International Schoenfeld Cello Competition in Hong Kong, he has been praised by La Libre Belgique for his “superb resonances, deployed with elegance and a zest of sentimentality.”

CelloChat Adult Learners Series: Michal Shein – Finding Expression in Bach

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Israeli-Mexican-American cellist Michal Shein is a performer, community organizer and master educator focused on curating cross-cultural performance projects and intensive educational initiatives. In 2021, she founded the Cellísimo Festival, an intensive high level cello festival for Spanish speaking cellists which includes masterclasses with world-class faculty, special lectures and wellness sessions. Michal is recognized for her pedagogical style that nurtures her students with effective pedagogical methods for solid and positive musical advancement. Her students have been winners in competitions, have received admission to top festivals such as BUTI Tanglewood, Brevard, YOLA Festival, Greenwood, National Symphony Summer Institute, and have played in masterclasses for cellists in top conservatories in the U.S.

Teacher Training Seminar 2023

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Drawing on the vast experiences of a diverse teaching team, this intensive, virtual summer seminar will cover a broad array of subjects relevant to cello teachers at all levels of experience. Topics this year include explorations in shifting and vibrato, practice strategies for busy students, applying Feldenkreis Principles in your teaching, essentials for cello beginners, early steps in developing keyboard visualization, the art of cadenza writing and many, many more. Our classes are designed to bolster pedagogical knowledge and skills, with opportunities for participants to engage directly with our faculty in both formal and informal Q & A settings. Faculty in 2023 include master teachers Paul Katz, Tanya Carey, Mark Churchill, Sandra Halleran, Khari Joyner, Alison Bazala Kim, Kee-Hyun Kim, Ken Kubota, Jisoo Ok, Aristides Rivas, and David Ying.

CelloChat Adult Learner Series: Kathryn Bates

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Cellist Kathryn Bates’ boundless energy for sharing musical experiences has shaped a career that continues to explore the intersections of tradition and innovation. Praised for her “beautifully rounded sound” by the New York Times, Kathryn’s performances are characterized by a dancer’s sense of rhythm and captivating theatricality. Projects range from her recent tongue-in-check solo cello recording of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” (“Inspire Christmas” album on Sono Luminus) to performances during Elliott Carter 100th Birthday anniversary celebration at Tanglewood that were called the “revelation” of the concert (Sequenza 21) and “electrifying” (Boston Globe). Cellist of the San Francisco-based Del Sol Quartet since 2010, Kathryn has established herself as an important voice in the contemporary music world, as musician, collaborator and curator.

CelloChat: Michael Haber – It Isn’t a Trombone…

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Cellist Michael Haber is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brandeis University and did graduate work at Harvard and Indiana University. His cello teachers were Janos Starker, Mihaly Virizlay and Gregor Piatigorsky. He is a former member of The Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell, the Casals Festival Orchestra under Pablo Casals and was the principal cellist of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra. As cellist of the Composers Quartet, in residence at Columbia University, he toured and recorded internationally, as he did with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. For more than 20 years, he was the cellist of The Gabrielli Trio.

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