Events for Friday, August 5, 2022 - Thursday, December 30, 2021

CelloChat: David Ying

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Cellist David Ying is well known to concert audiences as the cellist of the Grammy Award winning Ying Quartet. With the Quartet he has performed worldwide in celebrated music venues from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House. The quartet is also known for its enterprising view of concert performance, which has led to visits to the White House as well as correctional facilities, and to business schools as well as hospitals. In its collaborations, the quartet has performed with chamber music greats Menachem Pressler, Gilbert Kalish, and Paul Katz, as well as explored new musical territory with folk musician Mike Seeger, the Turtle Island Quartet, and even actors, dancers, chefs and magicians.

Farewell to ’21 and Cell-o to the New Year: Day 1

Count down the days to the New Year with CelloBello! Today's featured video is Jacob Collier: Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire EPIC FESTIVE CELLO COVER with Jeremy Tai and Special Guests.

CelloChat: Aristides Rivas – Thoughts and Approaches to Classical Latin American Repertoire

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Grammy-nominated cellist Aristides Rivas is a founding member of the fusion world music band Voci Angelica Trio. Rivas has performed at a wide range of international music venues and festivals such as Caramoor Music Festival, Tanglewood, Carnegie Hall, Newport Jazz Festival, the Barbican in England, Sejong Center in South Korea, and Teatro Colon in Argentina, among others.

CelloChat: Brinton Averil Smith – Interpretive Principles Learned from Recordings of the Masters of the Golden Age of String Playing

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Critics have described American cellist Brinton Averil Smith as a “virtuoso cellist with few equals,” hailing him “a proponent of old-school string playing such as that of Piatigorsky and Heifetz.” Smith’s debut recording of Miklós Rózsa’s Cello Concerto with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra received widespread international critical acclaim, with Gramophone praising Smith as a “hugely eloquent, impassioned soloist,” and continuing “The sheer bravura of Smith’s reading is infectious” while the American Record Guide praised his recording of chamber music of Fauré with Gil Shaham as “Stunningly beautiful,” continuing “I cannot imagine a better stylistic match for Shaham.”

CelloChat: Kevin Olusola

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Kevin Olusola is best known as the beat boxer of the a cappella quintet Pentatonix. The three-time Grammy® Award-winning and multi-Platinum-selling group has sold more than 10 million albums and performed for fans at their sold-out shows across the globe. Their YouTube channel boasts over 19 million subscribers and yields over 5.1 billion video views. As a solo artist who's been been classically trained in cello, piano, and saxophone, the Yale graduate fuses popular and classical styles together to create a sound new to classical instrumentation.

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