Across cultures and genres, listeners consistently describe the cello as “human,” a rare case where an instrument’s emotional impact aligns almost perfectly with its acoustic range. Some instruments ...

Joan Herget is on a mission to live in the zone and surround herself with the best musicians. On this episode of On Stage at Curtis we meet Joan Herget a Canadian Cellist taking over Philadelphia.

Bach’s cello suites are among the best known works of classical music, now risking popularization to the point of fatigue as they provide background music for cat food commercials. But one hundred and ...

Quick: Name your favorite cellist (besides Yo-Yo Ma). Can't think of one? All right, how about your favorite guitarist, drummer or singer? That was much easier, wasn't it? Chances are, when you hear ...

Before a concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall last week, I stopped at the Colburn School across the street for a quick salad. Every outdoor table of the café was crowded with a dozen or more animated ...

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 ...

What do you get when you marry a saxophone and a cello? The answer is SXNCELLO, the husband/wife artistic team of Ashley James and Lily Thornton, known to social media as “that couple who perform ...