Musicm Business & Career
What do you need to boost your music career?
What do you need to boost your music career? By Irma de Jong What does it take to have a successful music career? What do you expect and hope to achieve? For this, an important element is to understand what is your motivation and what drives you. To say it is...
Social mania; everything for a like
Social mania; everything for a like by Irma de Jong How far do we allow social media to determine our lives, or, even taking over? In this article, we dive into the world of the likes, the ones that make a living out of Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, and we...
Facebook – Curse or Blessing?
Is there a Life without Facebook? This week Mark Zuckerberg defends himself in front of the American Congress, against accusations of political manipulation, the data leak to Cambridge Analytica and other (privacy) concerns. What is going on exactly? Can we still...
Fiddler on a luxury ship – Lincoln Center Stage
Playing Chamber Music on the Holland America Line @Lincoln Center Stage The musical adventure of Floor Braam on a cruise ship from Florida to Alaska In spring 2016, violinist Floor Braam was scrolling through the MusicalChairs website when an interesting advertisement...
Successful Music Career? We listed 7 Skills you need to have!
What are the 7 Skills you need to have in order to build a Successful Music Career? By Irma de Jong Here we list the 7 main skills you need to possess in order to be successful in your music career, or better, in life! Most of these skills you will not have heard of...
Your Website is Your Online Business Card!
Your Website is Your Online Business Card! Make your artist identity visual and authentic with an attractive and clear website Your website is like your online business card, a possibility to share with your audience and fans information about you, your ensemble, and...
How to become a Cultural Entrepreneur
How to combine Music and Business and become a Cultural Entrepreneur? You're a professional musician, you have all the necessary diplomas and now you're ready to hit the stage. You're all set up for a successful music career. But what if you cannot find concerts? What...
musiXange: Free Musical Services for classical musicians
musiXange: Free Musical Services by Paul Cassarly As a European organization that wants to teach the world classical music, iClassical created an ecosystem for musicians, where you find content that is accessible by anyone, for free. iClassical Academy provides...
Travel & Music
Harbin and Schoenfeld International String Competition; a City of Music to discover!
Harbin and Schoenfeld International String Competition; a City of Music to discover! As a modern city, Harbin has more than 100 years of history barely. However, this growing city has an affinity with music. Accompanied by music, Harbin has always been musically...
Visit Venice and its hidden free of tourists spots
Visit Venice and its hidden free of tourists spots A mission impossible? Not if you walk with locals! by Irma de Jong Venice is known for many things; the greatness of its settings, architecture, and artwork. It's like walking in one big open-air museum and not having...
Lago Maggiore – Where History and Italian Elegance are merged with Music
Where History meets Elegance and Music Visit Lago Maggiore and the Music Scene By Irma de Jong Lake (Lago) Maggiore is situated on the south side of the Alps. It is the second-largest lake in Italy and the largest in southern Switzerland. The lake and its shoreline...
Picturesque Warmond at the Kagerplassen, home of Dutch Painter Jan Steen
Picturesque Warmond at the Kagerplassen, home of Dutch painter Jan Steen Go beyond the tourist crowds and discover a lovely part of the Netherlands, full of watersport, Dutch windmills, art and culture. Jan Steen Household Ever heard of the Dutch painter Jan...
Music Instruction
Acoustic Guitar Styles In Modern Pop
Acoustic Guitar Styles In Modern Pop by Johnnie Scott The acoustic guitar is one of the most popular instruments used by artists of all genres. It is a vital part of the music industry and has created most of the modern pop artists you listen to and adore today. Many...
Effectiveness of Online Music Lessons
Online Music Education, the new normal? Effectiveness of Online Music Lessons by Irma de Jong We started 2020 in social distancing, which has accelerated the need and appreciation for online learning and teaching. Many musicians were forced to go online, as it...
Conducting technique; an introduction by Gianmaria Griglio
Conducting technique; an introduction by Gianmaria Griglio According to some, conducting technique - just for clarity, I’m referring to orchestral and not choral conducting - it is a debatable point. Conducting technique has been the subject of numerous discussions...
SAINT SAENS RONDO CAPRICCIOSO ONLINE VIOLIN LESSON
SAINT SAENS RONDO CAPRICCIOSO ONLINE VIOLIN LESSON CORNERSTONE LESSON VIOLIN VIRTUOSO REPERTOIRE The composition by Saint-Saens "Rondo Capriccioso" is dedicated to the 18th-century violinist Pablo de Sarasate, and there's a very much audible Spanish influence in the...
BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATA NO. 23 APPASSIONATA – Masterclass review
BEETHOVEN SONATA NO. 23, OP.57, APPASSIONATA Beethoven himself described this composition Appassionata as one of the best he ever wrote, and it is no doubt the most celebrated of Beethoven’s piano sonatas; the 1st movement, reporting the tempo indication " Allegro...
Young Musicians Now Seek Learning Variety
Young Musicians Now Seek Learning Variety by Paul Cassarly It’s no secret that every successful musician in the world has had at least one influential teacher in their life. However, it also isn’t surprising to learn that the world’s best musicians have had multiple...
The Young European Strings School of Music
The Motto and Guiding ethos of the Young European Strings School of Music (YES) By Maria Kelemen “When I grow up I want to be a musician” The Young European Strings School YES offers twice weekly 30 minutes lessons to the beginner separating the theoretical part of...
BACH VIOLIN PARTITA NO. 1 IN B MINOR – MUSIC INSTRUCTION
BACH PARTITA NO. 1 IN B MINOR, BWV 1002, ALLEMANDE MUSIC INSTRUCTION - BACH SOLO VIOLIN REPERTOIRE In his Partitas, Bach treats the traditional dance form with great liberty, accentuating virtuosity, melodic inventions, rhythm and beautiful counterpoint elaborations....
Online Paganini Caprices Video eLearning Series – Review
Paganini Caprices, a devilish challenge for many violinists The 24 Caprices for Solo Violin were written in groups (six, six and twelve) by Niccolò Paganini between 1802 and 1817. As we all know, they demand a lot of technique, velocity, accuracy and precision from...
Uri Vardi Feldenkrais specialist: “My Teaching Philosophy”
Feldenkrais specialist Uri Vardi about his passion and motivation to help musicians all over the world develop themselves holistic The Feldenkrais method is a very efficient method for auto training, based on the awareness of our motor schemes and reorganizing of...
Cello & Cellists
How to Change Cello Strings with Confidence
How to Change Cello Strings with Confidence - a video tutorial by Alex Scott Putting strings on your cello, putting them back on if they slip, replacing strings/learning to change cello strings, and working with the tuning pegs are all essential cello skills. Change...
Mayke Rademakers E-Cello and Stagioni
“Stagioni” E-Cello improvisations by Mayke Rademakers Classical musician Mayke Rademakers recorded her first CD with the E-Cello and a loop station. The CD “Stagioni” was released in February 2018 on Challenge Records and has a daring combination of Hildegard von...
POPPER HIGH SCHOOL OF CELLO PLAYING ETUDES 1 & 6
POPPER HIGH SCHOOL OF CELLO PLAYING ETUDES 1 & 6 by Gianriccardo Pera A real cornerstone for every cellist, to be watched and learned with great attention. In the Popper cello playing etudes, Dmitry Yablonsky shows how to practice and master crucial elements like...
Why Online Music Lessons Are So Effective
Why Online Music Lessons Are So Effective by Paul Casserly With the dawn of the internet, there is now a decades-old argument as to whether or not learning an instrument or piece of music online is better, or if musicians should merely stick with the traditional...
Pablo Casals’ Cello played by Amit Peled
"A great piece of art” Peled serenades with Historic Instrument of Pablo Casals (video) By Irma de Jong How the musician and the Pablo Casals cello came together At a very young age, Amit fell in love with a girl that played the cello. He decided to impress her and...
“Amado Mio” romantic and dark side of love
Classic song "Amado Mio" arranged for piano and cello By Irma de Jong Fulvia Mancini developed the special idea of re-arranging this song by the Italian composer Beddini. "Amado Mio" is a song from the classic 1946 film noir Gilda, written by Doris Fisher and Allan...
ELGAR CELLO CONCERTO IN E MINOR, OP 35, 1ST MOV
ELGAR CELLO CONCERTO IN E MINOR, OP. 85, 1ST MOVEMENT (PART 1) CORNERSTONE LESSON ELGAR Amit Peled teaches about the attitude, technics and the critical points of the first movement of this very famous Elgar Cello Concerto composition. Special topics are the use of...
Composers
Composer Michael Fine, Grammy Award winning producer
Interview with Grammy Award winning producer Fine about composing We asked composer Michael Fine: when did you discover your vocation for composing: "I began composing four years ago. Although the act of composition was prompted by my wife's diagnosis with Multiple...
CELLO CONCERT COMPOSITION – through the eyes of a child
Diary of a composer by Matthias Kadar - video 3 - the opinion of "very" young students about the Cello Concert composition Welcome to the new episode of Matthias' diary about his composition making. Matthias Kadar is the author for Cicerone of a beautiful composition...
COMPOSITION MAKING – episode 2 – reflections from the train
Matthias Kadar's "Diary of a composer" - video 2 - the railroad of inspiration Welcome to the 2nd episode of Matthias's composition making diary. Today he's on the train, thinking, writing and building the main themes of his Cello Concerto. Matthias is a very...
COMPOSITION MAKING – episode 1 – the first sounds
Matthias Kadar's "Diary of a composer", with his adventure into a new composition making - step by step monitoring - video 1 Here starts a new exclusive series from Cicerone Music & Art. As many know, Matthias is one of our authors for interactive courses (see...
John Philip Sousa, The March King
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), also known as ‘The March King’ is considered being the first composer of classical music born in the USA. During his lifetime, he was a very popular American musician and interesting enough he started his musical career playing the...
Astor Piazzolla inspired a contemporary violin composition
Astor Piazzolla inspired Federico Favali's "Astor and me" (video) Federico Favali accepted to give us some explanations about his connection with Astor Piazzolla. In fact, he composed a piece inspired from Piazzolla's "Inverno Porteno". In the video below, he talks...
eLearning
Effectiveness of Online Music Lessons
Online Music Education, the new normal? Effectiveness of Online Music Lessons by Irma de Jong We started 2020 in social distancing, which has accelerated the need and appreciation for online learning and teaching. Many musicians were forced to go online, as it...
RAVEL TZIGANE CORNERSTONE LESSON REVIEW
RAVEL TZIGANE Cornerstone Lesson Review Professor Hagai Shaham explains the many topics of this genial composition, showing the parts which mainly express the typical Hungarian romantic style. For example, how to achieve the proper expression of the piece and connect...
SAINT SAENS RONDO CAPRICCIOSO ONLINE VIOLIN LESSON
SAINT SAENS RONDO CAPRICCIOSO ONLINE VIOLIN LESSON CORNERSTONE LESSON VIOLIN VIRTUOSO REPERTOIRE The composition by Saint-Saens "Rondo Capriccioso" is dedicated to the 18th-century violinist Pablo de Sarasate, and there's a very much audible Spanish influence in the...
BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATA NO. 23 APPASSIONATA – Masterclass review
BEETHOVEN SONATA NO. 23, OP.57, APPASSIONATA Beethoven himself described this composition Appassionata as one of the best he ever wrote, and it is no doubt the most celebrated of Beethoven’s piano sonatas; the 1st movement, reporting the tempo indication " Allegro...
Sibelius Academy using online learning musical training – experience review
Sibelius Academy using online learning musical training Sibelius Academy, the cornerstone of Finnish music and a pioneer in online learning musical training, has long traditions. Established in 1882, the cradle of classical music education has added other genres to...
Young Musicians Now Seek Learning Variety
Young Musicians Now Seek Learning Variety by Paul Cassarly It’s no secret that every successful musician in the world has had at least one influential teacher in their life. However, it also isn’t surprising to learn that the world’s best musicians have had multiple...
Classical guitar recording – secrets from professionals
Classical guitar recording like a pro To learn something it's always very useful to see professionals at work. We normally write about how to record your own music at home but consider that the most efficient methods are often brought from professional experience, and...
E-LEARNING EVOLUTION – ULTIMATE METHODS
MUSIC E-Learning evolution, latest techniques, and ultimate systems and methods Under the very renown word “E-learning” we can find several millions of articles, videos, blogs, vlogs, and many more modalities through which people communicate their knowledge to others....
Why Online Music Lessons Are So Effective
Why Online Music Lessons Are So Effective by Paul Casserly With the dawn of the internet, there is now a decades-old argument as to whether or not learning an instrument or piece of music online is better, or if musicians should merely stick with the traditional...
Online Paganini Caprices Video eLearning Series – Review
Paganini Caprices, a devilish challenge for many violinists The 24 Caprices for Solo Violin were written in groups (six, six and twelve) by Niccolò Paganini between 1802 and 1817. As we all know, they demand a lot of technique, velocity, accuracy and precision from...