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 - the modern cello,…
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 learn a lot about…
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 you teach yourself a…
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 I heard repetitively sceptic…
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 of my teaching. Today…
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 mostly. Advertisements from manufacturers…
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 old biology book is…
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 week” on Saturday. The…
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 is different - and…
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: You´ re “pleasing yourself”…