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womencellists for #womenshistorymonth Margarethe Quidde (1858-1940) was a German cellist, teacher, and critic. She studied with top cellists of the time, including Robert Hausmann and Alfredo Piatti. She also studied composition with Clara Schumann's half brother. I love this striking photo of her.

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Celebrating women cellists for Women's History Month! Today, Hungarian cellist Rosa Szuk (1844-1921). Her father was her first teacher, and she became a pioneering soloist. Pictured here playing without an endpin, though she later adopted one because crinolines weren't exactly amenable to cellos.

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Celebrating Women's History Month with women cellists! French cellist Élisa de Try (1846-1922) used an endpin, a device that only gained widespread popularity in the 1860s. Very useful for those needing to play the cello in a skirt!

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Cello thought for the day: now that we can access so many early 20th-century recordings on YouTube, I can't stop listening to the much older dialects of playing. Fashions change over time and it gives you some perspective any time a present-day performer has a "one truth" attitude to interpretation.

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No one: "What's Miranda been doing recently?" Me: "Translating entire books from German into English using an AI methodology built by data science wizards in Idaho." Coming soon: "Mechanics and Aesthetics of Cello Playing" by Hugo Becker, open access e-book. www.uidaho.edu/news/feature...

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Cello thought for the day: there is an inexhaustible supply of technical etudes for cello. We should explore them all, not just stick to the same 3-4 books. My first teacher never met an etude book she didn't love, and I think I'm turning into her 😁🎻

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The happy place 😍🎻 Brahms with @katsuya_yuasa and @eneida_larti ... So thankful for the chance to play this great music alongside great colleagues 💗

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Tomorrow! Live stream link in comments.

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New head shots, taken in the beautiful Gothic Revival auditorium of the University of Idaho 🎻😀

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Cello thought for the day: nothing makes me think harder about improving than making music with people who play different instruments extremely well. Woodwind players make me think harder about letting the music breathe. Brass players make me think harder about the ends of note shapes.

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....aaaaand it's going to be a "drop wolf eliminator through f-hole of cello" kind of a day 😵🎻

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Tonight!!! I'm SO PROUD of my student Ryan for his UI Concerto Competition-winning performance of Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto. He worked so hard for this and he's going to do great things.

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Spending my Saturday on the recruitment trail at #allnorthwest2025 Living the dream and growing future Vandals 😎 #nafme #uidaho #lhsom #lionelhamptonschoolofmusic #govandals

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Well, this is cool. The university where I teach is now a Carnegie R1 research institution. Hooray and Go Vandals 😎

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Cello thought for the day: Pablo Casals reportedly always told his students to do only what is necessary. That is such good advice for every aspect of cello playing. It's so liberating to realize that overworking your equipment (i.e. your hands and arms) isn't virtuous. 🎻🎻🎻😁😁😁

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Cello thought for the day: so much about playing technique is determined by balance. Also: play more Klengel exercises, full stop 😁🎻

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All my cello teachers: "Play closer to the bridge." Young MW: "No." MW 10 years later: "Hey, playing close to the bridge is great!" MW now: "Play closer to the bridge." My students: "No." All I need to do is wait 10 years and maybe they will start doing this 🤣 🎻

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Cello thought for the day, courtesy of Hugo Becker (my current research interest/obsession): "Strength and softness, rapid and calm movement, joy and sorrow, jubilation and lamentation, longing and resignation—in short, all the feelings of which humans are capable must be communicated by the bow."

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Cello thought for the day: scales scales scales, how I love thee, scales scales. Scales. 🎻

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Congratulations to my University of Idaho cello student Katrina, whose fiery performance of the Lalo Concerto earned her second prize in the Washington Idaho Symphony Young Artist Competition. She'll be performing with the symphony in May. 🎻🎻🎻

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Sometimes I think I entered the world's least sensible profession, and then sometimes music touches me so deeply that I feel as if it's cracked my heart open like a brazil nut, and then I'm okay with my profession again.

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If you went to college 1. what was your career goal when you started? 2. your initial major? 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. what do you do now, professionally? 1. Cellist, writer, cello professor 2. Cello performance 3. N/A 4. Cellist, writer, cello/music history professor

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Cello thought for the day: I just realized Julius Klengel wrote a whole book more of exercises than I previously thought. Guess what we're sight reading in classes this week? 😁🎻

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Wow, I can't believe my first ever all-of-the-Bach-Suites marathon was seven years ago. That was a project and a half! After it was over I wrote a whole book about it. "The Well-Tempered Cello: Life with Bach's Cello Suites," available from all the places you'd like to buy books 😁🎻

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Cello thought for the day: I really wish Schubert had written a cello sonata. I know we can play the arpeggione sonata, but it would be so great to have a sonata of our very own. I also wish Mozart had written one. And I wish Mendelssohn's cello concerto hadn't gotten lost 😭🎻

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Cello thought for today: don't skip your Feuillard Daily Exercises. There's a reason they're daily 😁🎻 I've always had a great fondness for Monsieur Feuillard, particularly since reading in Paul Tortelier's autobiography about what a kind and caring teacher he was.

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Cello thought for the day: there's a whole theme in the last movement of the Barber cello sonata that sounds irresistibly like "My Favourite Things." I'm going to call it an intertextual relationship.

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Adjudicating at the Montana Association of Symphony Orchestras Young Artist Competition is a great way to spend a Saturday 😁🎻 So much talent!!!! It's heartwarming to hear the results of the huge amounts of practice and effort that go into these performances.

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Exciting news! My translation of Carl Davidoff's Violoncellschule (1888) is now published as an e-book by the U of Idaho Library. Davidoff, one of the top cellist-pedagogues of the 19th century, codified different types of position shift and was an early adopter of the endpin. Link below.

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First day of spring classes and grad students are already emailing me spreadsheets of their goal repertoire, complete with catalogue numbers, links to IMSLP scores, and their favorite recordings. People, this is my love language 💗💕💖 It's going to be a great semester 🎻🎻🎻

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Join our fabulous cello community at the University of Idaho Lionel Hampton School of Music! Scholarships and assistantships are available for cellists 🎻🎻🎻

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