Pirastro’s New Flexocor Deluxe Strings are Designed to Provide a Smooth Ride

Pirastro's new Flexocor Deluxe cello strings are designed to make playing the cello a breeze, with emphasis on ease of use for the player.

Your First Cello Lesson: A Beginner’s Guide to Playing Cello

From how to hold the cello to left-hand tips for cellists, here's your comprehensive first cello lesson and a beginner's guide to playing the cello.

Elinor Frey Explores the Piccolo Cello on ‘Early Italian Concertos’

Elinor Frey emerged from pandemic lockdown in 2021 to record an album of early Italian cello concertos by Vivaldi, Leo, Sammartini, and Tartini on piccolo cello.

Deciphering Debussy’s Markings Inspires New Thinking in Other Pieces

Notation is only the very beginning of musical interpretation in Debussy's Sonata for Cello and Piano, and markings alone leave a great deal to be imagined.

Defeating the Demons: Finding My Way on the Cello Takes Grit and Community

I had been expecting to work hard every day. What I wasn’t expecting was the long, dark arc. But there is a certain lush singing sound the cello makes. I’m chasing that sound.

Remembering Cello Titan Lynn Harrell, Whose Impact Went Far Beyond His Instrumental Prowess

While part of Lynn Harrell’s legacy is a generation of cellists who follow his affection for tone and more, its essence is something each of us can partake in.

A Private Passion: My Time With the Cello Is Only for Me

I had always had a crush on the cello. Well, maybe more of a romantic fascination. But I was intrigued. And so I began.

Edgar Moreau’s Remarkable ‘Transmission’ Sums up the Values That Have Sustained the Young French Cellist

Cellist Edgar Moreau's album "Transmission" is informed by various aspects of Jewish culture and identity and entails an homage to his own heritage.

Why I Wrote ‘The Art of Listening: Conversations with Cellists’

I couldn’t shake the idea of writing a book of interviews with great cello teachers, which led to my book "The Art of Listening: Conversations with Cellists."

Essential Historical Recordings: The Larger-Than-Life Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky

For several decades in the mid-twentieth century, Piatigorsky was the cello’s greatest international star.