Loose your balance and play better!
How are you doing with your hip joints? Enjoying them? It took me five years and the work with about 300 cellist to find out that bit of…
Do you stand behind your cello – or are you still lying?
We play the cello sitting. Not standing. Obvious, isn´t it? But what´s the difference between sitting and standing? * ***pregnant pause*** * The answer is alarmingly simple: We…
Make piece – not war – with your tensions
A disease is spreading all over the world. Musicians of all kinds are especially in danger to be infected. It´s epidemic, highly infectious and already so common that…
Perfectly imperfect!
“Yet another cello-sophic blog article. Why am I not prociding more concrete, practical tipps? Is this blog always about the question of meaning? The huge pathos? Psycho-talk? Why…
Listening Christmas
Christmas is coming. All Commercials and shop displays shout: Buy! Buy! Give! Give! Don´t worry! I´m saving you the anti-commerce-speach”. Because the “More inhibition – time as gift…
My cello, my breasts and me
Movement patterns always develop in a social context. This is why the changing of habits is really a special discipline. This is especially true for habits that were…