For cellist Cello (Qiele) Guo, playing the instrument that reflects his name was not a coincidence. It was destiny. “My father was a cellist … in China,” Guo said. “He gave me the name Cello because ...

In an age of increasingly sophisticated AI and the fear that one day humans will be made obsolete, the classical music world has remained relatively unfazed, with the prospect of a robotic symphony ...

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Cello soloist Aster Zhang ’24 was playing the last — and most frenetic — movement of Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 when the unimaginable happened: a string snapped. The music halted, and ...

Former Electric Light Orchestra members Melvyn Gale, Bev Bevan and Mik Kaminski appeared at Birmingham City University to ...

The silver instrument has been gifted to the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire by Melvyn Gale.

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The cello was stolen from the musician’s car last Friday. A member of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (RLPO) is appealing for the return of his ‘irreplaceable’ cello which was stolen from ...