You don’t see many concert cellists who also write music. If those talents are combined, they are usually in someone who is a composer first and a cellist second. Luigi Boccherini, Heitor Villa-Lobos, ...

The cello is a very fine instrument - just ask Yo-Yo Ma - but it has some fundamental weaknesses. The most obvious one is that there's no way to play more than two of its four strings simultaneously.

On Tuesday, Alisa Weilerstein presented a concert of J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G major interleaved with five living composers. Who were they? Unless you grabbed a pamphlet-sized program on your ...

Just a week after he had his 2021 Clarinet Concerto performed by the Quad City Symphony, the prolific composer Jacob Bancks will premiere a new piece he wrote in honor of Augustana’s retiring cello ...

Cellist Amanda Gookin knows firsthand that the path forward is often a circuitous one, with many pit stops and detours. During her 20s — after completing training at the Mannes School of Music in ...

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Adam Satinsky isn't about to hand you his cello. It's only three months old, its spruce and maple freshly gleaming under the varnish from Colorado cellomaker Christopher Dungey. Satinsky would like to ...

A cello concerto drawing on concepts of sutures, mended objects, visible scars and ultimately healing, has won the 2026 Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition from the University of Louisville. “A ...

An electro-acoustic cello for a comic-book villain. Sampled whistling for young revolutionaries in a Latin American jungle. A German rendition of a Beatles song for a satire on the Third Reich. A ...