Back to basics | Perusasioiden äärellä

Here I am writing about La Vill'A Illkirch school of arts where I replace my dear friend Anne-Clémence Kantelberg as a cello teacher. I have a very pleasant class with lovely pupils and families, and I’m very happy to get to know these beautiful persons.

After first three weeks of giving lessons I've started increasingly appreciate cello pedagogues such as Sheila M. Nelson, Katherine & Hugh Colledge, Árpád Pejtsik, Jean-Louis Duport, Sebastian Lee and Louis R. Feuillard for the literature for young cellists. Finnish methods and repertory had to be set aside, but the grasshopper playing cello on his tails is dug out!

Violoncello music by Editio Music Budapest alias Grasshopper book. Who still remembers this?

Back to basics

Cello essentials by Louis Feuillard - seems still to be one of the most used cello schools in France

Au clair de la Lune | My new repertoire

There are some also some photos around the music school. By the autumn, in one month, the flora changed a lot. I love the nature around, the swans, wild ducks and geese and colorful autumn leaves floating on the Ill-river and the scent of fresh autumn air when taking the path to the school.

View 18 September

View 8 October

Ill-river

There is this bush or a tree that I take on photo every time I pass, because I always find it in a different color.