New Album: “LES DÉLICES DE LA SOLITUDE”

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I’m delighted to announce the release of my new album with Michelle Kesler. It’s available at all the streaming services, or you can order it directly from the MSR Classics website. Michelle and I have been friends since we were students at the University of Colorado, and a couple of years ago we started performing together. The idea of making an album together wouldn’t leave us alone, but how to choose from the wealth of two-cello music out there? Inspired by their lively charm, we decided to record the six sonatas of Les délices de la solitude by the French composer Michel Corrette (1707-1795). It took us a while to get our schedules to align, but in November 2024 I flew down to Utah to record at the incredible facility at Brigham Young University, where Michelle is professor of cello.

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“Notes for Cellists” Reviewed in Strings

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“True mastery of a composition should involve the kind of working knowledge this text offers. These concepts form a sort of lexical and narrative shorthand that is broadly applicable across genres and time periods. There are other ways to come by this knowledge—biographical research, private study, formal coursework, intensive listening—and I recommend these too. The thoroughness and clarity with which Notes for Cellists interpolates these concepts is what serious players should strive for in their approach to the entire repertoire.”

—Emily Wright, review of Notes for Cellists in Strings, July-August 2025.

New Book! Teaching Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass

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I’m thrilled to announce the publication of a new book. Teaching Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass: Historical and Modern Pedagogical Practices, co-authored with Dijana Ihas and Gaelen McCormick, is the result of four years’ research and writing.

When my co-authors and I began the daunting process of compiling every pedagogical treatise ever written about bowed string instruments, we had no idea just how much literature there was.

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“Well-Tempered Cello” at Wellington City Library

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I spent half my childhood and teenage years at Wellington City Library, ransacking their collection of Strad and Strings magazines for new issues, checking out armfuls of CDs, and reading my way through their books about music. So I’m beyond thrilled that The Well-Tempered Cello: Life with Bach’s Cello Suites is included in their feature about the Bach Cello Suites.

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Well-Tempered Cello Review in The Strad

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I’ve been reading The Strad avidly since I was a teenager, so it was a huge thrill to have my book, The Well-Tempered Cello: Life with Bach’s Cello Suites reviewed in this august publication. (Link to the review here.) I used to check copies out of the Wellington City Library, cart them home on the bus, and lie on the floor for hours, poring over the pages.

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Strings Review of “The Well-Tempered Cello: Life with Bach’s Cello Suites”

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It was exciting to wake up to the news that Strings had reviewed The Well-Tempered Cello.

Something the reviewer said reminds me that I’d like to have more of my own recordings of Bach up on YouTube, since right now I only have a live performance of the First Suite (in a COVID mask…) and a handful of audio recordings of movements from other suites in SoundCloud. A few readers have asked about it too. Short answer: there was a professional videographer at my Bach Marathon, but sadly his computer was stolen the day after the concert and the recordings were irretrievably lost. I haven’t (yet) secured grant funding to make a studio recording of the Suites…an expensive project, to be sure. Hopefully now the book is gaining a bit of traction, grant funders may be persuaded. Crossing my fingers…