The Lonely Cello Podcast

New Zealand American cellist and professor of cello at the University of Idaho (making her my favorite Vandal) chats with Emily about, well, lots of stuff. This is a pretty special episode, as I've been a fan of Miranda's work forever, and we have both written for Strings for a long time. I had to have her on because her new book, Notes for Cellists is an absolute banger. Like most of the better episodes, this one is all over the place! Buckle up and enjoy. :)

Miranda's website: https://mirandawilsoncellist.com/

Miranda's faculty profile: https://www.uidaho.edu/class/music/our-people/faculty/miranda-wilson

eBook of her Davidoff translation: https://uidaho.pressbooks.pub/violoncellschule/

OUP website for her latest text, Notes for Cellists: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/notes-for-cellists-9780197623749?lang=en&cc=us

As always, you can visit emilywright.net to see what's going on there: an upcoming class entitled Using Time and Texture to Create Musical Ideas will be enrolling into the summer, as well as a level-based studio class. Send a text or give me a call on the Lonely Cello text/voicemail line: 323 657 9444 or email contact at emily wright dot net to ask questions or make a request for an episode topic!

Music maven, practice scholar, and generally excellent person Erica Sipes joins me to continue chipping away at the edifice of performance anxiety. How can we have high standards and still be at peace with imperfections? Have a listen!

Erica's website: https://www.ericaannsipes.com/

Her wonderful chamber group, The Alma Ensemble: https://almaensemble.org/

My website: https://emilywright.net

NEW! Lonely Cello voicemail inbox: 323 657 9444

I'd love to hear from you with ideas for new episodes, questions you'd like answered, or just to say hi!

We are BACK! This is Episode 1 of a new series talking about performance psychology, where it comes from, and new approaches to mitigate it. In this episode, I speak with Carly Jacques, LCSW about how clinicians see performance anxiety and how it relates to perfectionism. We also talk about EMDR therapy and how it may hold the key to staying physically and emotionally regulated in certain situations where we feel under or over-activated. I hope you enjoy it.

Note: my good microphone is sending weird noise into the mix, so this and the following two episodes were recorded using the on-board Apple headphones' audio. Apologies if the difference makes it less enjoyable to listen to.

Carly's website:http://www.crjacqueslcsw.com/

Learn more about the window of tolerance: https://www.nicabm.com/trauma-how-to-help-your-clients-understand-their-window-of-tolerance/

EMDR resources: https://www.emdria.org/

Could not find the source for the quote, but it's so nice to have it here in the show notes: "We cannot shame ourselves into change; we can only love ourselves into evolution." ❤️

NYC based violist Nick Revel joins me to chat about structuring practice, new thinking in scale study, and all kinds of other nerdy shit. Some links:

Nick's website: https://www.nickrevel.com/

Grammy-nominated PubliQuartet: https://www.publiquartet.com/

Quick link to Dragon Scales: https://www.nickrevel.com/dragonscales

Nick's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/revelnick/

Many of you will recognize the name of this installment's guest: Joel Dallow; cellist in the Atlanta Symphony and founder of the Cello Sherpa podcast.

Here's his website! https://www.thecellosherpa.com/#/

Here's an example of the BEMER device he mentioned (not a promotion). https://bemergroup.com/en_US/human-line/home

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra website: https://www.aso.org/

Join Wendy and me for a chat about women composers. Wendy Velasco is an absolute BOSS in the Los Angeles string scene, and gave me real encouragement early on in my career. She is a treasure, and I have so much respect for everything she does in service of the music community.

Wendy's database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mQJEl1FRyiXGEk7b8sxZx-4ixsJtCNDtAz1B_KYS94s/edit#gid=391158875

The Boulanger Initiative: https://www.boulangerinitiative.org/

https://emilywright.net/new-podcast-women-composers-with-the-wonderful-wendy-velasco/

If you'd like to get in touch with her, contact me and I'll make an introduction!

This is a short track designed to be listened to just before you attend your lesson. Over a background of muted ambient music, I offer a few mind decluttering statements to give you the space to learn openly, without anxiety or judgement. I hope you have a wonderful lesson. ❤️

Noa Kageyama's (MM, PhD) blog Bulletproof Musician has been essential reading for a lot of us since it began. It was such a treat to sit down and chat with Noa about how he got started, studying with Shinichi Suzuki, challenging the Gladwellification of performance psychology data, and so much more.

Find his blog here: https://bulletproofmusician.com/start-here/

You can enroll in courses (live cohorts and asynchronous learning) here: https://bulletproofmusician.com/courses/

Listen to this episode to hear Emily become an immediate and fervent fangirl of the two women behind PopperEtudes.com. Katie Tertell and Ailbhe McDonagh's insightful, fun, and helpful video tutorials for each of the 40 studies comprising Popper's High School are available now! Highly, highly recommended.

Useful links:

Popper Tutorials! http://PopperEtudes.com

Katie's Website: http://KatieTertell.com

Ailbhe's Website: http://AilbheMcDonagh.com

Appalachian Chamber Music Festival: https://www.appalachianchamber.org/

Content warning: some light swearing and an unfortunate but impossible to edit out fart joke/reference.

John Hanifin is an old soul with a new album, called Clean House. Come eavesdrop on our conversation about formative experiences, cello philosophy, and general music nerdery.

John's Website: http://johnhanifin.com

Clean House on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/20hbg4XG3zdWlEf8Xx75vl

Listen to Clean House and collabs on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/john-hanifin/1576046652

Today's episode is sponsored by The Cello Sherpa podcast. Seriously, one of the best podcasts out there. https://www.thecellosherpa.com/