Following the release of the music video and conversation with members of the Kyiv Contemporary Music Days (KCMD) team and Ukrainian Classical Musicians Support Fund, CelloBello will host a conversation with cellists that participated in the music video. The conversation offers the opportunity to explore in words what this musical collaboration was all about.
CelloKids is Back on September 17th! After the enthusiasm for our May pilot, this school year we will continue to offer our new CelloKids curriculum that explores the fundamentals of music in an age- and level-appropriate manner. Games and activities will focus on concepts surrounding Singing, Form, Pulse, Melody, Harmony, and Written Skills, keeping the learning light and fun. Classes will largely be led by the wonderful team of Andrea Yun and Horacio Contreras, who have co-designed this year’s curriculum. We are thrilled to be offering classes in both English and Spanish, led and designed by the wonderful Andrea Yun and Horacio Contreras.
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.
¡CelloKids regresa el 25 de septiembre! Después de nuestro exitoso piloto de mayo, este año escolar continuaremos ofreciendo nuestro nuevo plan de estudios CelloKids que explora los fundamentos de la música de una manera apropiada para cada edad y nivel. Los juegos y actividades se centrarán en los conceptos relacionados con el canto, la forma, el pulso, la melodía, la armonía y las habilidades escritas, manteniendo el aprendizaje ligero y divertido. Las clases serán dirigidas en gran parte por el maravilloso equipo de Andrea Yun y Horacio Contreras, quienes han co-diseñado el plan de estudios de este año.
Austin Huntington was appointed principal cellist of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in June 2015 at the age of 20, currently making him one of the youngest principal musicians in a major American orchestra. He was recently the runner-up for the San Francisco Symphony’s principal cello position in March 2022 as well as a finalist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s principal cello position in March 2018. During the summer, Austin is a principal cellist for the Mainly Mozart Festival and Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestras.
Paul Katz is known to concertgoers the world over as cellist of the Cleveland Quartet, which, during an international career of 26 years, made more than 2,500 appearances on four continents. As a member of this celebrated ensemble from 1969 to 1995, Katz performed at the White House and on many television shows, including "CBS Sunday Morning," NBC's "Today Show," "The Grammy Awards" (the first classical musicians to appear on that show), and in "In The Mainstream The Cleveland Quartet," a one-hour documentary televised across the U.S. and Canada.
This school year we will continue to offer our new CelloKids curriculum that explores the fundamentals of music in an age- and level-appropriate manner. Games and activities will focus on concepts surrounding Singing, Form, Pulse, Melody, Harmony, and Written Skills, keeping the learning light and fun. Classes will largely be led by the wonderful team of Andrea Yun and Horacio Contreras, who have co-designed this year’s curriculum.
Julia Lichten enjoys a varied career as soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, and teacher and coach in the New York area. She received degrees from Harvard-Radcliffe and the New England Conservatory, followed by two years of study at the Mannes College of Music. Her major teachers were Mischa Nieland and Paul Tobias. A member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra since 1995, she has toured as a soloist with Orpheus, as well as with Musicians from Marlboro and the American Chamber Players.
Acclaimed worldwide for his profound musicianship and technical mastery, British cellist Steven Isserlis enjoys a unique and distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, educator, author and broadcaster. As a concerto soloist he appears regularly with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, including the Berlin Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, London Philharmonic and Zurich Tonhalle orchestras. He gives recitals every season in major musical venues, and plays with many of the world’s foremost chamber orchestras, including the Australian, Mahler, Norwegian, Scottish, Zurich and St Paul Chamber Orchestras, as well as period-instrument ensembles such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Unusually, he also directs chamber orchestras from the cello in classical programs.
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.
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.
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.
