Short-bearded, blue-jeaned Rajan Krishnaswami is seated on the stage in the empty hall embracing his cello like a lover. Fingers flash along the finger board; his arm draws the bow incisively over the ...

What is it? The most resonant voice in the strings section, the cello has been described as the instrument that most closely corresponds to the human vocal range. Who uses it? Symphony orchestras ...

From its origins as a coarse dance instrument to a symbol of courage and defiance, the cello has inspired so many of the west’s greatest composers and performers ‘Why write for a violin when there is ...

A string instrument "Cello" which is larger than the violin and slightly smaller than the contrabass is a musical instrument with four strings and bass echoes. A cello craftworker cut out timber, ...

With elegant black and tan keys it looks like a baby grand piano, but when tinkled they release the voluptuous tones of a cello. Painter of the Mona Lisa, Italian Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci ...

Ishmael Ali wears many musical hats: composer, guitarist (in the bands Je’raf and Errata) and co-founder of a recording space in North Lawndale. But it’s his most recent instrument — cello — that has ...