Cellist and Writer
I was an early adopter of remote music teaching, so when the you-know-what hit the fan a couple of months ago, I knew I wanted to do something to help teachers who hadn’t taught using a videoconferencing platform before.
Musicians are a smart and resourceful bunch, and after a few initial freak-outs, most studio teachers I know adapted well and are now confidently teaching over Zoom, Skype, or another online platform.
Continue reading “The New Normal? Reflections on Remote Music Lessons”
There’s simply nothing more fun than playing cello ensemble music. The cello’s range is vast — bigger than those of the other members of the bowed strings family — and when you get a bunch of cellists together, you can have the highest and lowest voices of an ensemble at the same time as that glorious all-cello tone.
Continue reading “The Only Thing Better Than A Cello Is…”
COVID-19 didn’t kill the classical music profession. It was already on its way out; COVID just sped it along a bit.
Continue reading “Classical Music is Dead. Long Live Classical Music.”
“In these unprecedented times…”
“The world is a strange and challenging place right now…”
“When all this is over…”
The world has permanently changed and the music profession has to change, too, or we won’t survive.
Continue reading “Setting Up Your Online Remote Music Teaching Business”The pandemic is getting really old, isn’t it? I don’t know about you, but I devote significant amounts of my daydreaming time to the things I’m going to do “when this is over.”
The thing that comes to mind first, and the thing I’ve missed the most, is playing chamber music.
Continue reading “Everything I Know About Marriage, I Learned From Chamber Music”
Miranda Wilson 