Friday June 8

WORKSHOPS I

11:30 - 12:30 Registration
1:00 - 2:00 Sera Smolen - Improvising Chamber Music
2:10 - 3:10 Water Bear – “Cameron” – jam session
3:20 - 4:20 Break of Reality – Rock 101
4:30 - 5:45 Cello Big Band

WORKSHOPS II

1:00 - 2:00 Corbin Keep – Speed Date Your Cello
2:10 - 3:10 Dana Leong – Jam session
3:20 - 4:20 Gideon Freudmann – strumming’ bowin’ pickin’ & grinnin’ - jam
4:30 - 5:45 Cello Big Band

FRIDAY EVENING CONCERT

7:30 Nancy Kulkarni & Daniel Kennedy

Friday June 8

WORKSHOPS I

11:30 - 12:30 Registration
1:00 - 2:00 Sera Smolen - Improvising Chamber Music
2:10 - 3:10 Water Bear – “Cameron” – jam session
3:20 - 4:20 Break of Reality – Rock 101
4:30 - 5:45 Cello Big Band

WORKSHOPS II

1:00 - 2:00 Corbin Keep – Speed Date Your Cello
2:10 - 3:10 Dana Leong – Jam session
3:20 - 4:20 Gideon Freudmann – strumming’ bowin’ pickin’ & grinnin’ - jam
4:30 - 5:45 Cello Big Band

Saturday June 9

WORKSHOPS I

9:00 - 10:00 Nancy Kulkarni - Music of India: Alap Improvisation
10:10 - 11:10 Gideon Freudmann - Blues

Invert, the “upside down” string quartet featuring cellists Steven Berson and Chris George, violinist Helen Yee, and violist Chris Jenkins, will be performing at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, New York on April 21, 2007 to kick-off the release of their new full length third CD. Entitled “The Strange Parade,” Invert’s latest release is a fresh departure, even for this already alternative string quartet. The CD includes fifteen pieces that showcase Invert’s distinctive mix of compositions and improvisations by members of the band, and their own arrangement of Japanese composer Shigeru Umebayashi’s “Yumeji’s Theme.” What sets “The Strange Parade” apart from their previous recordings is the inclusion of two cuts that feature Roberto Juan Rodriguez on drums. Invert’s often groove-driven music gets an extra rhythmic boost from Rodriguez (who has performed with Joe Jackson, Paul Simon, Paquito D’Rivera, Ruben Blades and Marc Ribot among numerous others) on the songs “Dog Days” and “The Peak.”

Scottish traditional music.

Classes, workshops a concert and ceilidh.
The festival is being held in Milngavie, near Glasgow, Scotland on the weekend of February 24th - 25th 2007.

For cello there will be classes at 3 different levels, all taught by ear and covering Scottish tunes, accompaniment techniques and improvisation. There will also be opportunities to play with the harpers.

Cello tutors are Seylan Baxter and Patricia Strain.

For more information contact info@celloharp.com

Sunday, February 25, 4:00 pm

Cello, Celli ! Derek Snyder and Friends, Kerrytown Concert House. A celebration of the cello designed to inspire all cello enthusiasts, exploring the vast and varied contemporary possibilities of the instrument. Featuring solo and ensemble cello, the program highlights borrowed techniques from other instruments, such as the guitar, as well as demonstrates modern electronic "looping" technologies. Members of the Ann Arbor and Toledo Symphonies performing music of Bach, Brubeck, Katz and Piazzolla join Ann Arbor native/Cleveland cellist Derek Snyder.

Dear Fellow Cellists,
I'll be in Monterey, CA from March 2-5, 2007 hosting an intensive weekend in how to move forward in improvising in jazz, world and free styles. Please visit http://www.classactsontour.com and click on "Special Programs" for more information! Thanks!

I am pleased to inform that the City of Casalmaggiore, in Northern Italy, organizes a one-week workshop dedicated to cellists only, from Monday, September 3rd to Friday, September 7th, 2007. It will be directed by Maestro Rudolf Weinsheimer, formerly cellist of the Berliner Philharmoniker and founder of the most famous cello orchestra in the world: Die 12 Cellisten der Berliner Philharmoniker.
The workshop is addressed to cellists of any experience: pros, students and amateurs, and it aims to prepare and perform the biggest cello concert ever played in Italy, which will be performed twice, in Casalmaggiore and in Cremona.

Gideon Freudmann - www.cellobop.com

Dana Leong - www.danaleong.com

Nancy Kulkarni - www.newdirectionscello.com/Nancy%20Kulkarni/index.htm

Zoe Keating - www.zoekeating.com

Break of Reality - www.breakofreality.com

Water Bear - www.waterbearmusic.com

Cello-Mania is right around the corner. These weekend workshops will happen a few times throughout the year. Don't miss out on the first one- Aug.19-20th, 2006.

To find out more info, check out alexkelly.com

Don't miss your chance to learn from Joan Jeanrenaud (formerly of the Kronos Quartet), and from Dr. Alex Kelly

Create new possibilites for you and your cello!

For those of us who are driving to the festival, I see that the NCAA track finals will be at CSU Sacramento this weekend. This promises to make parking a bit of a challenge.