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CelloKids: Beyond Scales: Exploring Scale Modes with Improvisation

Wondering what on earth are scale modes? Great! Mike Block will be using improvisation as a means to explore the 7 Greek modes of the typical Major scale (i.e. Dorian mode, Lydian mode, etc). Join this class to better understand the importance of these modes and how they apply to music. This class is intended for Intermediate players—but any curious beginner can sign up to audit the class as an Observer off camera. For the purposes of this class, “intermediate players” should have 3-5 years of playing experience AND be over age 10.

CelloChat: Amos Yang

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Amos Yang has been assistant principal cellist with the San Francisco Symphony since 2007. He was previously a member of the Seattle Symphony. Yang has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, the Far East, and Europe, appearing at the Aspen Music Festival, the American Academy in Rome, Wigmore Hall, and Alice Tully Hall. He has collaborated with the Ying Quartet, Turtle Island String Quartet, pianists Ann Schein and Melvin Chen, violinist Earl Carlyss, and composer Bright Sheng.

Audition Preparation Workshop 2022

Whether you are a high school student planning ahead for upcoming undergraduate auditions, a seasoned teacher looking to help prepare your students, or a parent seeking audition guidance for their child, this workshop is designed to give you tools to demystify the conservatory and music school audition process. This program will help our participants play a fantastic audition for the school of their dreams.

CelloChat: Jan Vogler – Cello Sound

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Jan Vogler’s distinguished career has brought him together with renowned conductors and internationally acclaimed orchestras around the world, such as New York Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and London Philharmonic Orchestra. His great ability allowed him to explore the sound boundaries of the cello and to establish an intensive dialogue with contemporary composers and artists. This includes regular world premieres, including works by Tigran Mansurian (with WDR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov), John Harbison (with Mira Wang and the Boston Symphony Orchestra), Udo Zimmermann (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra), Wolfgang Rihm (Double Concerto with Mira Wang), Jörg Widman (Cello Concerto Dunkle Saiten, dedicated to Jan Vogler himself) and Nico Muhly, Sven Helbig and Zhou-Long (Drei Kontinente – Konzert für Cello und Orchester, composed for Jan Vogler). The New York Times praises his “soulful, richly hued playing” and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung grants him the ability “to make his cello speak like a singing voice”.

CelloChat: Brant Taylor – Finding Simplicity in the Bow Arm

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Brant Taylor’s varied career has included solo appearances and collaborations with leading artists in chamber music, orchestral, pedagogical and popular music settings on five continents. Before his appointment to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra by Daniel Barenboim, he was cellist of the Everest Quartet, prize winners at the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, as well as a member of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. He made his solo debut with the San Antonio Symphony at the age of 14.

CelloKids: Movement Meets Music – Applying Dalcroze to the Cello, Part 1

Wondering what on earth are scale modes? Great! Mike Block will be using improvisation as a means to explore the 7 Greek modes of the typical Major scale (i.e. Dorian mode, Lydian mode, etc). Join this class to better understand the importance of these modes and how they apply to music. This class is intended for Intermediate players—but any curious beginner can sign up to audit the class as an Observer off camera. For the purposes of this class, “intermediate players” should have 3-5 years of playing experience AND be over age 10.

CelloKids: Movement Meets Music – Applying Dalcroze to the Cello, Part 2

Wondering what on earth are scale modes? Great! Mike Block will be using improvisation as a means to explore the 7 Greek modes of the typical Major scale (i.e. Dorian mode, Lydian mode, etc). Join this class to better understand the importance of these modes and how they apply to music. This class is intended for Intermediate players—but any curious beginner can sign up to audit the class as an Observer off camera. For the purposes of this class, “intermediate players” should have 3-5 years of playing experience AND be over age 10.

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

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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.

CelloBello’s 8 Days of Giveaways

Join us for our 2022 year-end celebration, featuring 8 DAYS OF GIVEAWAYS! December is the month of giving, and CelloBello is joining in that spirit with a fun countdown of gifts! We are ringing in the New Year by awarding daily prizes all throughout this last week of 2022, as well as releasing new videos for our beloved CelloBello community.

CelloChat: Darrett Adkins

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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.

CelloChat: Q&A with Santiago Cañón-Valencia

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Santiago Cañón-Valencia has been praised as one of the most promising young cellists of his generation. Born in Bogota in 1995, his major musical mentors have been Henryk Zarzycki in Colombia, James Tennant in New Zealand, Andres Diaz in the United States and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Kronberg Academy in Germany.

CelloKids: Musicianship Through the Body – Beginnings, 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.

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