Barbara Bogatin, Cellist

Strings Magazine has been a marvelous source of information and inspiration for professional, amateur, and student string players of all genres for over 30 years. I’ve written articles for their print and online magazines about topics including music and meditation, reviewing guest conductors at the San Francisco Symphony, practicing the music of Mahler and Fanny […]

The relationship of music and hope felt very present during the challenging times of 2020. My article in Riff Magazine looks at connections between performances I played for the “Violins of Hope” project on restored instruments that had been rescued from the Holocaust, to recent collaborations with hip hop musicians in a new SF Symphony […]

As the San Francisco Symphony welcomed our new Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen under the unusual circumstances of the pandemic, I wrote an article about the role of the conductor from my perspective. This article was referenced in the League of American Orchestras journal, “The Hub”. https://www.sfcv.org/article/to-beat-or-not-to-beat PDF Download

Article from Strings Magazine, published in September, 2016 about my “pet project” at the San Francisco Symphony of conducting survey questionnaires that review all of our guest conductors. PDF Download  

The changes that my neuroscientist husband and I would both have professional activities in the same part of Europe on the exact same dates in September were about as likely as a cloistered nun living in an Abbey on an island in the middle of a lake in Bavaria harboring a cello in her attic, […]

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Book Review of Strings Attached in November 2014 Strings Magazine For information on Strings Magazine subscriptions:  http://www.allthingsstrings.com/

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