In March, 2020, the San Francisco Symphony stopped performing and went into sustained hiatus, along with the rest of the country. The professional musician community was not being able to meet our audiences in live performances for over a year. I wrote two humorous/serious articles for The San Francisco Chronicle about my personal experience during […]
The San Francisco Chronicle – “Cellist’s Black Dress Misses the Concerts Too” May 25, 2020
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The San Francisco Chronicle – “My Black Dress Returns to the Stage” June 9, 2021
SF Symphony cellist’s black dress heralds return to the stage SF Chronicle “My Black Dress Returns to the Stage” June 9, 2021 – PDF Download
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The San Francisco Chronicle – One Cello, One Fellow. Aug 31. 2020
One on one: a musician’s perspective of SF Symphony’s intimate concert series One Cello, One Fellow. Aug 31. 2020 – PDF Download
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Strings Magazine, “The Buddha, the Brain, and Bach” August 2014
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 […]
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Article in Riff Magazine; Music and Hope
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 […]
SF Classical Voice article: March 9, 2021; “To Beat or Not To Beat?”
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
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A Brownie for Your Thoughts
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
Article: “Cello in the Chapel”, Strings Magazine, December 2015
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, […]
Strings Magazine Book Review of “Strings Attached; One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations”
Book Review of Strings Attached in November 2014 Strings Magazine For information on Strings Magazine subscriptions: http://www.allthingsstrings.com/
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