Welcome!

Thank you for stopping by! The first iteration of this site was Stark Raving Cello: a Blogger site where I took turns opining, explaining, and ranting about whatever came into my 28-year-old brain. The name of the blog was accurate!…

Requests for merch!

I forget that I have a TeePublic store; or rather, I forget to tell people I have a Teepublic store. I add things throughout the year, and also am happy to take requests for artists and other personalities you’d like…

New podcast episode!

This is the first in what will be a series where I explore performance anxiety through a number of different lenses. In this episode, Carly and I chat about perfectionism as it relates to performance and a novel form of…

Adding to your lexicon: tenuto

Behold! The mighty tenuto! Language of origin/root: Italian, tenere meaning to hold. I’m starting this series with tenuto because I went three decades without truly knowing what this small but transformative line atop or beneath a note really did: I…

Lonely Cello voice inbox!

In the coming weeks, the podcast will surge back to life with new interviews and episodes focusing on every possible aspect of performance anxiety: what it’s like, how and why it manifests, strategies that help, strategies that…don’t help…As well as…