Compositions

 

Moon Tide of the Horseshoe Crab is a fantasia for solo cello that my husband and I composed together in 2013. 


Conversations

Inspired by the natural beauty surrounding our cabin in the NH mountains, my husband and I composed The Colebrook Suite in 2012.

In many of the lessons that I teach, I love to take a few minutes to have what I call a conversation.  In these moments there is no such thing as an error or a mistake.  We are simply listening and exploring sound together.  The student gets to make the rules, such as, are we in a key, what is the emotion we might want to convey, is it fast or slow, or is it simply a free improvisition that we will respond to in any way that we want?  Some students love these times and immediately develop a comfort level with improvising and playing with sound.  Here, in the following two conversations, you will hear free improvisations with Celeste Newman and myself.  

 

Performances

 

I am so thankful to the parents of my students for their many home videos.  The following is one such video capturing our participation in a Capewide string concert many years ago.

I would like to extend a special thank you to Marilyn Rowland for all of her time and effort in undertaking both the publicity and the video taping of my concerts and workshops over the years.  This video of a 2015 concert of Bach's Air on the G string was a collaboration concert with Rhonda Rider and the BoCoCelli and eight of my Chappaquoit Cellists.

These performances of Amazing Grace and Ashokan Farewell took place in the Woods Hole Community Hall as part of the collaborations between Rhonda Rider and the BoCoCelli and my Chappaquoit Cello Studio.  We are so grateful and honored that cellist Javier Caballero made these arrangements for us.  The opening cello solo in Amazing Grace was played by my student Celeste Newman

The following 3 videos are from our November 2019 concert in Woods Hole.  The titles French Folk Song and Rigadoon are reversed.  The final video is our premiere of "Paisagens Brasileiras" commissioned by Nikki Patton and The Chappaquoit Cello Studio and Rhonda Rider and The Cello Seminar at Salem. This exciting piece was composed by the wonderful Brazilian composer Dimitri Cervo.

 
 

   In 2021. my husband and I decided to make a major life change.  We moved from Cape Cod to a cabin in the mountains of northern Georgia for our winters, and to a cabin in the mountains of northern NH during the summers.  Cello lessons are taught on line throughout the year and in person when in GA and NH.