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The Cello Museum Interview

Please tell us more about your online cello courses. Well, they came out of COVID. I had always intended to open myself up to teaching one-to-one online, but when COVID...

Best Foot Forward

Hello Cellist! At last, we are going to be together again, in-­person, playing, learning and growing. We have all had a long, unnatural break in our musical lives and I’m...

Hello Cellists Everywhere!

It’s lovely to have you onboard. What a year this has been on so many levels for all of us and I do hope all is well with you and...

Bumps in the Road

We like to think that our progress and development is more linear than may be the case. I see progress where sometimes a pupil doesn’t. In fact, this week a...

Brand New World

I have been teaching cellists online for a few months now, and on Saturday I launched the new Online Time Line series. It is another arm of the Unsung Heroes...

Teaching Observation

I have been working for a year now with a lady, in her 70s, with Parkinson's. Normally I would cross town to teach her as it’s difficult for her to travel...