1. “Playing the cello should start young.” Nope. Really. I started when I was 19 and became a professional cellist, and I have pupils who started after the age of 45 and now effortlessly change positions and enjoy Bach: fable! 2. “Playing the cello...
UPDATE 23 MONTH: This workshop is now offered online because of the measures taken around the Corona virus! Last year I received an email from filmmaker Maarten Roos with the nice news that Ilse de Ziah, Irish cellist and completely at home in Irish music, would give...
If you have (recently) decided to learn to play the cello, you have made the right choice ? The cello produces warm, rich tones that are very closely related to the range of the human voice, and it doesn’t surprise me that it has been a beloved instrument for...
Never! So often I hear from people that they think they are too old to learn to play the cello. And that’s such a shame, because it’s really not true. Maybe it is true that children learn faster, but I have never had a child with whom I could pick a scale...
Did you have that too, that when you started playing the cello you had a piece in your head that you hoped you would play someday? With me, it was Bach’s first cello suite, as with so many. But over the years I got to know more and more pieces. When I was 19 I...
I look back on the almost finished class year (because I don’t stop in the summer holidays). Giving cello lessons is a party and I am so happy with all my students. They always get in the car and drive back and forth from the Almelo region to Breda. Or who come...
