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To book now, email [email protected] 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 [...]

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 [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

  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, [...]

A special invitation from 'Beethoven & the Cello' Artistic Director, Robin Michael, with Daniel Tong HEAR MORE

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, 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/

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

"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 [...]

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.

Award-winning cellist, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, donates thousands to old secondary school so 10 other young people can continue having cello lessons. Story from bbc.co.uk view the whole story and video here >>

LCS is pleased to announce a grant of £10,000 just awarded for a chamber music initiative with In Harmony Lambeth cellos, part of El Sistema England and Lambeth Music Service. Under the tutelage of [...]

Sam Pryce has written a review of Kate Shortt after an entertaining evening at King's Place in London. Read the full review on The Cusp - Cello Cabaret here >>

10 years ago, Guy Johnston’s cello was broken on a trans-Atlantic flight coming back from a US tour, leading to a 7-year search for a particular cello carved meticulously 300 years ago in Rome [...]

Here’s what’s happening in the new LCS Beyond Cello Course with star teacher Shirley Smart!  We have already learned a delicious North African "chaabi" piece called Ticaraca Tchoub…who knows what it means, but it’s [...]