Minnesota Wedding & Event Cellist, Cello Lessons
My husband sent me this video of a “musical road” in Hungary and now I am down the rabbit hole! It’s so cool:
The road only “sings” if you drive the speed limit so what a great way to get people to slow down!
I also found one from California that sounds terrible and got built wrong.. twice.. LOL!!
Cello by Triana – Minnesota Wedding Cellist, Cello Lessons, Minneapolis Wedding Ceremony Musician
I’m half Irish so I was obligated to play this piece! I love it though so that helped a lot 🙂
I found it in Renata Bratt’s book Celtic Grooves. She writes:
Ewie wi’ the Crooked Horn is a strathspey with roots in Scotland, Ireland, and over to Cape Breton.”
I found this page with some more info on it plus free sheet music!
Cello by Triana – Minnesota Wedding Cellist, Cello Lessons, Minneapolis Wedding Ceremony Musician
I find a lot of inspiration in dance, especially a very sport driven dance like figure skating. I watched Ilia Malinin’s performance from the 2025 Grand Prix in France about 25 times. I went to look for it today from NBC Sports and weird.. it’s totally gone! There is some sort of copyright issue, even the NBC website won’t post it.. So anyways here is an audience members version off of their phone.
Obviously he is amazing, but the music is really beautiful too. He used two different songs including “The Ball” by Asaf Avidan.
I have been trying to find a score for this and I hope I do because I really don’t want to have to write this myself lol!!! It’s not super hard but it would take me a long time… anyways.. enjoy because it’s so pretty!! 🙂
Cello by Triana – Minnesota Wedding Cellist, Cello Lessons, Minneapolis Wedding Ceremony Musician
I performed recently at a middle school choir concert and it was so wonderful and so sweet and all the students were so great!
I did it just because it was a good opportunity to volunteer my music to my community and wasn’t expecting anything in return.
But then I got a sweet note and a little gift basket and everyone (including Smokey) loved it!
It’s so important to request reviews online for independent musicians. I always feel oddly guilty about doing that and I know I should be better. But I have only pride in posting these photos from handwritten cards!
(BTW you can read my digital reviews on my GigSalad profile!!)
Minnesota Wedding Cellist, Cello Lessons, Minneapolis Wedding Ceremony Musician
I just found this great short video on different bowing techniques and how they are notated!! This is a great video to save on your YouTube playlist for reference!
Minnesota Wedding Cellist, Cello Lessons, Minneapolis Wedding Ceremony Musician
I’ll be performing Christmas Eve at Living Christ Church in Chanhassen this coming Wednesday! Really looking forward to it.
I’m playing solo pre service at 3pm. At 3:30 the service begins with a really beautiful program with music featuring cello, organ, solo vocalist, and a choir.
We’ve been working on this music for a while and it’s going to be so beautiful and moving! My favorite for sure is a version of O Holy Night for cello and organ which then transitions into a piece for the main vocalist.
The church live streams the service on their YouTube page!
Minnesota Wedding Cellist, Cello Lessons, Minneapolis Wedding Ceremony Musician
Had a great time performing holiday music downtown Minneapolis the other day.. The space was really cool, it had so much reverb as you can hear. The elevators rang out, the coffee machines rang out, the people, luggage.. and me!
The high notes on the A string were especially vibrant. Even though there is a lot of ambient noise I thought this turned out pretty well 🙂
Book me for your next holiday party, including a romantic Valentine’s dinner or date or party!
Minnesota Wedding Cellist, Cello Lessons, Minneapolis Wedding Ceremony Musician
December 7th 2025! Come by to see the beautiful space and meet the wonderful musicians of Northfield. It’s such a gem and super affordable to rent for your rehearsal, lesson, or performance.
Check them out at https://hotspotmusic.org/ !!
Minnesota Wedding Cellist, Cello Lessons, Minneapolis Wedding Ceremony Musician
I’m a guest performer with the Northfield Middle School choir on Tuesday Dec. 2 and I’m super excited to play this piece with them!
Under Winter Moon for choir, piano and cello by Andy Beck
The audio is a little messed up ughhhh.. I was trying to balance the sound from YouTube with the cello.. without using a proper microhpone!! oh well hopefully I get a better recording on the performance day!
Minnesota Wedding Cellist, Cello Lessons, Minneapolis Wedding Ceremony Musician
I found a book of Bosnian folk music (aka Sevdah) for violin at the thrift store the other day and thought it was really interesting. I recorded this piece, Sarajevo:
I have so many other pieces I want to play and record! This is a good video about Sevdah and where it came from:
Cello by Triana – Minnesota Wedding Cellist, Cello Lessons, Minneapolis Wedding Ceremony Musician