Welcome to my channel! My goal is to share what I know about a variety of topics, so others may benefit from the education I've had. In regards to my cello videos, please keep in mind that there are many schools of thought when it comes to cello playing! If your teacher says something different from what I say, consider that we may both be right. Here are my credentials: I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Eastman School of Music and teacher in the Rochester area (cello lessons, early childhood music classes, and a few college courses). Before coming to Rochester, I earned my bachelor's and master's degrees in performance from The Cleveland Institute of Music, where I studied with Richard Aaron. More recently, I've studied with Alan Harris, David Ying, and Elizabeth Simkin. If you're looking for my celloteachersfriend website, I'm sorry to say that I shut it down because I didn't have time to maintain it. Check out happilyeducated.com instead! Thanks so much for visiting my page.
My daughter recognized you (but she's bashful and didn't say anything) at the Ithaca Suzuki Institute. How nice to see you after watching so many of your videos.
Thank you Abigail for this great video lesson. It helps me a lot. I can't thank you enough for the lesson. Now can you make another one for Sonata in E minor by Vivaldi of Suzuki book 5? It will be great if you can. I'm looking forward to it. Thank you so much again.
Abigail, your videos are the best and most educational we can find about the Suzuki method... your explanations are clear and objective Thank you for so many teachings
You were by far the best tutor on RU-vid, Nobody ever explained exactly how to do the pieces the way you do. I so sad that you left the cello for a career in Climate change. It’s a futile attempt when we have Russia and China operating 4000 coal power stations and India much the same. The movement has started and there’s more awareness about it. So please come back to the Cello again 😊❤️
Hi Abigail..I know that this video is several years old but I just wanted to thank you for this excellent instruction. I’m a 68 year old beginner Cello player and this piece is my next assignment. I like your straight forward approach to teaching the Cello. Thanks again and I hope that your continuing journey is a most pleasant one indeed..
I've been playing for around 6 years and just started with a new private teacher. She gave me Scherzo to get good idea of my playing style, and I mostly clicked onto this video to get an idea of how it sounded and how others interpreted it. This video is literally amazing, and it was literally like a whole free lesson. You are a phenomenal teacher, and I am so exited to browse some of your other content!!
0:20 I have a trick that works great, and it's a little pencil mark 😉 Some might say it's cheating but I don't see the competition so whatever makes it sound better.
Nice to meet you. I am a Japanese who started playing the cello in high school. Your Suzuki teaching videos really helped me to come to my senses. I can actually understand very little of what you are saying, even with subtitles. However, I can tell that you have a very good teaching style. You have condensed in a short space what we might stumble on, and I sometimes laugh at it (I sometimes hit my bow somewhere too). And thanks to you, I discovered the music of Aaron Minsky; I bought three copies of his sheet music on Amazon and am having a lot of fun with it. If I hadn't come across your videos, I would never have known about it. This is exactly the kind of music I wanted to play. Thank you so much. As others have said, if you were my teacher, I would have really enjoyed it.
