Popper à Deux on June 2nd at the Royal Academy of Music with Xavier Gagnepain, President of the Association Française du Violoncelle
Celebrating the beginning of our twin partnership with the AFV, as they are known, we were treated to an exploration of the Popper High School of Cello Playing with a second cello part [...]
Twinned with the Association Française du Violoncelle
The London Cello Society announces with great pleasure our newest adventure. We have twinned with the Association Française du Violoncelle, www.levioloncelle.com joining hands, minds and hearts in our common goals with our French brothers [...]
The Biennial Keith Harvey Memorial Award Goes to Ben Michaels
The London Cello Society has awarded the bi-annual Keith Harvey Memorial Award of £2,500 to Ben Michaels, primarily for his outstanding performance of Thomas Demenga's EFEU, which was written for the 2010 Feuermann [...]
Keith Harvey Memorial Fund & Award
Dear Members of the London Cello Society, Keith Harvey, our cherished co-founder and marvellous cellist, performer and collector par excellence, passed away three years ago. The Society, in tandem with his family, has [...]
William Pleeth: A Life in Music film showing
Until our LCS OnLine Series is able to resume, we offer in its place a viewing of the eight part series called William Pleeth: A Life in Music on Sundays at 5 PM, [...]
New Partnership with CelloBello
To book now, email events@cellobello.org Thanks to the support & partnership of the London Cello Society, CelloBello will be offering a special 20% discount code to LCS members purchasing tickets to our 2020 Virtual [...]
Tribute to Anner Bylsma
What did I take away from Anner Bylsma? JS Bach’s D minor Suite: Examples and key points from a session in Amsterdam* This page accompanies a tribute article by Guy Johnston which appears in [...]
All about the Bow!
Send Rebecca Gilliver, Principal Cello of the London Symphony Orchestra, your queries about the art of the bow. She has the knowledge, the experience, the insights you’re looking for! And she’s planning a [...]
Innovative Series of Online Events
Please join us for the first in our innovative series of online events to be hosted on the Zoom platform this coming Sunday, 14th June 2020, at 5.00pm. LCS Board member and cellist [...]
A Beyond Cello happening with Shanti Jayasinha on Sunday March 8th at the Claremont Project
Shanti Jayasinha is a well-established trumpeter based in London, playing a wide range of music from around the world. He was a serious 'cellist in his youth but gave it up when he discovered [...]
Aaron Minsky will be joining us for Global CelloDay!
Once again, Aaron Minsky, Mr ‘Von Cello’ is lighting up our shores with classes and performances of his cool Ten International Cello Encores, irresistible sound bites from different corners of the world. [...]
Past Meets Present! Beethoven and the Cello
Walter Fortepiano (McNulty reproduction) This fortepiano, made by Paul McNulty, is an exact replica of a fortepiano made by Anton Walter, both Mozart’s & Beethoven’s favourite Viennese piano-maker, in 1805. It is straight-strung, [...]
Beethoven & the Cello
A special invitation from 'Beethoven & the Cello' Artistic Director, Robin Michael, with Daniel Tong HEAR MORE
Sir John Eliot Gardiner joins us for our Beethoven Celebration
Image courtesy of Carnegie Hall Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner will join us for our Beethoven celebration on 3rd November. As principal cellist of Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique for over [...]
Shirley Smart – Long Story Short
Shirley Smart, our Beyond Cello division leader, releases new album to rave reviews… Jazz Views (Nick Lea) www.jazzviews.net/shirley-smart---long-story-short HiFi (Tony Anderson) www.hifianswers.com/2019/01/long-story-short-shirley-smart/
Thanks to the Stellar Line-up of Cellists who Performed for Glories of Venice
Huge thanks to the stellar line-up of cellists who performed for LCS on 25 November. 5 Montagnanas, 1 Serafin, 1 Groffiller. In no particular order: Guy Johnston, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Boris Andrianov, Ralph Kirshbaum, Amit [...]
Sheku Kanneh-Mason Meets Charles Beare and a Santo Serafin Cello
A preview of Glories of Venice: A Celebration of Rare Cellos, Sunday 25th November at the Royal Academy of Music, Dukes Hall 5pm and 7pm A Celebration of Rare Cellos Sponsored by Brompton’s Fine [...]
“GLORIES OF VENICE” ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC, NOVEMBER 25th at 5PM AND 7.00PM
Ralph Kirshbaum, Montagnana 1729 "I fell in love with it more and more. It was obvious that this was ‘the cello’. I’ve played many other cellos in my life – great Strads and other [...]
Pablo Casals’s 1733 Goffriller cello, by Amit Peled
"I met Mrs Marta Casals Istomin and the historic 1733 Matteo Goffriller cello of her late husband, Pablo Casals in 2012. The idea of seeing that instrument up close was hard for me to [...]
Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the Royal Wedding
The best instrument of all chosen to celebrate the nuptials of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Are we partial? Of course! Hear the beautiful performance below.