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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Composer Peri Mauer's new piece, September 16th, for cello, will be premiered by Craig Hultgren on Thursday, January 25, 2018, 7:30pm, at the National Opera Center, Marc A. Scorca Hall, 330 7th Avenue ...

Cast and crew breathing and vocalizing together. Banging giant metal plates in a London warehouse. Inventing impressionistic vocal colors for the Elizabethan era. Hiring a 90-piece orchestra to ...