Tennessee Cello Workshop

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The Tennessee Cello Workshop is an extensive three-day exploration and celebration of cello playing and music making. The program consists of a series of master classes, lecture presentations, cello ensemble events, cello competitions, and concerts. The Tennessee Cello Workshop TCW encourages all interested in the cello--professional and pre-professional cellists, amateurs of all ages, young cellists, & cello enthusiasts--to participate. One can participate on a huge variety of levels of proficiency on the instrument. The one unifying characteristic of all registrants is a great love for the cello.

Over the years the Tennessee Cello Workshop has had many of the country’s foremost cellist pedagogues on our faculty. The weekend is characterized by the warmth, community, enthusiasm, and excellence of pedagogy that each year’s event embraces. In late February of 2012 we will celebrate our 14th year, with some of the foremost performer-pedagogues in the world, cellists from throughout the United States.

This year we are joined by guest artist faculty Richard Aaron, Pansy Chang, Brendan Townsend, Alan Weinstein, Dan Allcott, Alicia Randisi-Hooker, Kathleen Bowman, and Kirsten Cassel Greer as faculty at our workshop.

All registered cellist participants are invited to perform in a master class. Interested cellists may also elect to participate in one of our three cello competitions. We round out our activities with concerts, group scale and technique sessions, cello ensemble, lectures on cello-related topics, and the chance to observe the many master classes held throughout the weekend. This year’s schedule will be a bit different from previous years to include MORE PLAYING for all cellist participants throughout the weekend. Bring your cello and experience a great weekend of stimulation, growth, and enjoyment communing with our wonderful cello community at the TCW.

I welcome you to join us in Knoxville February 24-26, 2012 to celebrate, explore, and share our love for the cello together.

-Wesley Baldwin,
Professor of Cello, University of Tennessee
Director, Tennessee Cello Workshop