Interesting Websites

FOR EVERYTHING CELLISTIC

• www.cellobello.org

This site has taken over from the Internet Cello Society website, an international cyber-community of cellists, that seeks to “advance the knowledge and joy of cello playing around the world”. They welcome cello enthusiasts of all ages and skill levels and currently have thousands of members representing 84 different countries of the world. A magnificent resource for all things musical and cellistic.

FOR SHEET MUSIC

• www.imslp.org (International Music Score Library Project – a magnificent Canadian university initiative)
• www.johnstone–music.com (here you will find, and for free,  an enormous selection of downloadable sheet music for any number of cellos (from 1 cello to a cello orchestra). This website is a gold mine of transcriptions, arrangements and original compositions, made available with extraordinary generosity by David Johnstone, a fine English cellist, composer and arranger, based in Pamplona, Spain.
• http://thecellogeek.blogspot.fr/2008/04/free-cello-sheet-music.html  (more free cello sheet music)
• http://www.rism.info (online catalogue of musical sources [facsimiles, manuscripts etc])
• www.learningthecello.com (a lovely little site, very much along the same lines as cellofun.eu, focused especially on early learners and amateurs, with some nice pedagogical arrangements (all free) of Bach’s contrapuntal keyboard pieces for strings and cello ensembles)

FOR PEDAGOGY

• www.irenesharp.com: some very healthy and stimulating interviews, pedagogical material, and discussions about teaching from the renowned teacher Irene Sharp (San Francisco).

• David Finckel’s Cello Talks, on his YouTube channel or on his website: approximately 100 wonderful, short videos, each one dedicated to a different aspect of cello playing.