Cello Links

Here are a collection of sites I think are worthy of a look. Let me know of other good sites I should list.

Pedagogy Sites

Cello Teacher's Friend
Celloteachersfriend.com is put together by Abigail McHugh. She studied at CIM and is a Doctoral student at Eastman. It is a new yet fantastic site with tips and ideas regarding cello pedagogy and technique. Give it a look.

Violinmasterclass.com
OK, so this isn't a cello link! But it is a great site. Violinmasterclass.com is underwritten by the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation in support of the teaching and performance of the classical violin. The site includes a great deal of teaching by Kurt Sassmannshaus, one of today's preeminent violin pedagogues and chairman of the String Department at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Cello Sites for Children

littlecellist.com
Here is a website for young cellists that includes games, videos, list of events, and much more!

General Cello Sites

Internet Cello Society
If you are a cellist, you probably already know of this site. It features interviews with famous performers, teachers, and has many other useful articles.

Scholarly Collections

Cello Music Collections at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
There are six collections: the Luigi Silva Collection, the Elizabeth Cowling Collection, the Rudolf Matz Collection, the Maurice Eisenberg Collection, János Scholz Collection, and the Fritz Magg Collection. What is great about this site is the comparison of bowings available online for the Bach Suites. You can view the actual manuscripts of Pablo Casals, Luigi Silva, Maurice Eisenberg, Rudolf Matz, János Scholz, and Elizabeth Cowling. NOTE: These images of the manuscripts are HUGE files. Even with a fast internet connection it takes a minute or so to view them.

The Anna Magdalena manuscripts of the Bach Cello Suites
Anna Magdalena was Bach's wife and she copied much of his music. This web site is by Harry Wimmer and you can view the manuscripts of Anna Magdalena online. Anner Bylsma has argued recently that the Magdalena manuscripts are the most authoritative.

Cello Blogs

Fugue State
Adult beginners unite! Fugue State is a blog by a flutist of 12 years who decided to take up the cello in 2006 as an adult beginner. Give it a look.

The Cello Geek
CelloGeek.com is a great collection of videos of famous cellists from the past and present all in one convenient location. It's also a great teaching tool for teachers.

Cello Products

Cello Drones CD by Marcia Sloane
Cello drones are a fantastic way to practice intonation while playing scales, arpeggios, and repertoire. There are several cello drone CDs on the market but this CD by Navarro River Music is unique in that it has three octaves of the fundamental pitch plus two octaves of the fifth. I highly recommend this product.

Sheet Music

The Frustrated Accompanist
I recently met Carol Leybourn at the Michigan Music Conference. She directs the chamber music program at the Lawrence University Academy of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin. Ms. Leybourn has done a great service by simplifying the orchestral reductions of the standard string concerti and making them more pianistic. Let's face it; what busy pianist wants to spend huge amounts of time practicing an orchestral reduction that has large amounts of unnecessary passage work? Your busy accompanist will thank you for providing him or her with these piano scores. Here are links to the piano scores:

Piano score sheet music to Dvorak Cello Concerto, Piano score sheet music to Elegie by Fauré, Piano score sheet music to Saint-Saens Cello Concerto, Piano score sheet music for Rococo Variations for cello by Tchaikovsky

Virtual Sheet Music - Classical Sheet Music Downloads
I am a member of virtualsheetmusic.com. You can download unlimited amounts of sheet music in pdf for $37.75 a year. It is $25.99 to renew from thereafter. They continually make updates to their repertoire available. It's worth it just to get all of the primary cello concertos and the quartets they offer. If you are a public school teacher, they also have other string music you may find helpful.

CD Sheet Music
This is an outstanding resource. Check out the Cello Music: The Ultimate Collection, Part I and Cello Music: The Ultimate Collection, Part II. You can get the all the primary cello literature, including etude books, in two CDs. You can purchase the CDs at Sheet Music Plus for $19.95 each.

International Music Score Library Project
Another fantastic resource. The IMSLP is a virtual library of public domain music scores and scores from composers who are willing to share their music without charge. It is a Wiki site so anyone can upload scores that are public domain. The link above takes you to the "List of Compositions Featuring the Cello" page.