Change is vital.
I moved to Bremen and now specialize in historical performance practice. My main instrument is no longer - as it was when we met…
What learning to play the cello and to run have in common
What learning to play the cello and to run have in commonBoth challenge me - my whole person - without ifs and buts. I…
Habit – homemade…
I can't blame anyone else. And I wonder how many more of my hindering habits I've trained myself based on complete voluntariness. How do…
Chamber Music with Amateurs and the Alexander Technique
An experiment - as nearly every professional musician has at least heard of the Alexander Technique it is totally different with the amateurs. So…
Your feet are flexible – allow them to move!
My valued customers know it: The importance of the subject “feet” has increased in my lessons. One could say that feet became the basement…
From Misconception to body-blessing
Time and time again I am asked where all these misconceptions about our own bodies come from. I like to show pictures from advertising…
7 good reasons for making peace with sitting!!
Sitting will kill you! Sitting is the new smoking! Let´s face it: The most dangerous threat to life is life itself! Erich Kästner My…
No Stress for Strings – 4 Tips
“If there´s anything strings players don´t need at all, it´s stress.” Regine Brunke I attended an enchanting concert at the “Bremer amateur music…
Tacet.
Something is different today than usual.
Something´ s in the air. Everything seems equally far and close, somehow the sound of the world is different.
Something…
The most erogenous region of the cello
Anyway: Friction at the right spot is a blissful thing, isn´ t it?
What does this have to do with sound production?
Well – casually said:…