Guy Michel plays the cello but he calls himself a DJ and an emcee. A DJ because he keeps the party going. He plays his electric cello in all the places he was told classical music didn’t fit — like ...

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It’s being called the “Sheku effect” -- the rise of young people in the United Kingdom signing up for classical music lessons to play the cello. Sheku Kannah-Mason is a 20-year-old acclaimed musician ...

When the global pandemic shut down concert halls and live performances last year, cellist Inbal Segev knew she couldn’t just sit at home and do nothing. That’s when she and her husband drafted a plan ...

Dirty Cello defies convention — and its members know it. As the Bay Area band returns to Napa for its upcoming performance at the Native Sons of the Golden West Hall on Saturday, April 26, lead ...

The new concerto is written for Moser and co-commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony, BBC Proms, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, and Odense Symphony Orchestra. Anna ...

Radiohead’s 1997 album “OK Computer,” a masterpiece that explored fears of technology-driven human isolation and political angst approaching the 21st century, was largely, and ironically, recorded in ...

The cello has long been regarded as the orchestral instrument with a sound that most closely resembles the range and timbre of the human voice. In the first part of the 18th century, composer J. S.

NEWPORT, R.I. — When Newport Classical asked cellist and composer Cris Derksen to create a piece for this summer’s classical music festival, there was one caveat: The piece needed to focus on Rhode ...

Performances by Chicago-based cellist Seth Parker Woods are not only ear-opening: They expand your perceptions of his instrument’s identity itself. Local music lovers will get a chance to experience ...