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Stephan Braun the cellist, composer and jazz artist I am proud to present our first Jazz man in Master in Music – the Podcast. It is Master in Music’s one year birthday and this episode with Stephan Braun is the greatest gift. He is a one man orchestra, who can create music that sounds like a whole jazz band on his single cello. It is just fantastic. He has also won first prize at the international jazz competition with his trio in Bucharest and he has travelled the world playing in the most incredible concert halls like Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Vienna Opera house, Paris Olympia theatre, Rutesheim Cellofestival of course and many, many more, because once you hear this amazing cello phenomena you just want more. Since 2014 he is teaching at the “Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien” in Hannover in Germany and he is giving masterclasses in Rutesheim. He is preforming with different ensembles and one of my favourites is Deep strings which is a cello duo with his amazing wife who sings and plays the cello. After the episode I added extra material with a student from Rutesheim cello festival. Jordan Hamilton who is rapping and playing the cello, is going to give his view of the festival and share some rap on the cello.  Are you ready to discover the extend of what a cello can do? this is the episode. Enjoy! Cello-Akademie-Rutesheim.de StephanBraun.com DeepStrings.de JordanHamiltonMusic.com Jordan Hamilton on Facebook Buy me a coffee

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A musician by training and entrepreneur by accident! Ladies and gentlemen buckle up I give you Peter Powell or Peter Power as I like to call him. Peter is the man that can make your dreams as a musician come true in the sense that he has the knowledge that makes a musician get concerts. Going from studying music to working as one takes more than just musical knowledge. In this episode we talk about how to get concerts from the practice room to the stage and having an audience that listens to you and how to get to play in festivals, we also talk about Team Academy that is the new school model of learning business here in Maastricht and all over the world. We talk about Peters blog where he writes about how to set goals and reach them. Peter gives us some tips and tricks on Facebook management and poster making. This episode contains lots of inspiration and knowledge that we wish we knew when we start our work as a musician. Peter was the man who kicked my butt out of the practice room and in to working as a musician and getting a lot of paid concerts. Now I like to share him with you. Music Recommendations All My Life by yMusic All My Life by yMusic, yMusic is an ensemble of classical musicians who play extremely interesting modern music that’s still catchy and accessible. They’ve collaborated with the likes of St. Vincent, Sufjan Stevens and Bon Over. Which just goes to show what happens when you take classical music out of it’s stuffy little box. Vivaldi Spring 3 Recomposed by Max Richter Literally Vivaldi’s four seasons recomposed, which just opens up a whole new audience and realm of possibilities for this amazing music that’s been

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Jakob Spahn: the young Solo cellist of the Bavarian State Opera, the Zlatan of the cello. He has won awards and travelled the world sharing his music and now he is a welcome guest in Master in Music. Jakob is smart, charming and creative. With his new CD recording of Gulda cello concerto, he brings classical music to the next technical level with a innovative 3D recording. He tells us how an app is on the way where you can zoom in and listen closer to the different instruments in the orchestra, and as you zoom the sound of that instrument gets louder. Pretty awesome! In this episode he also gives us his best advice in how to win an orchestra audition, what the difference is between winning that job or not. If you want to learn more from Jakob apply for this year’s masterclass in audition training at Rutesheim Cello Akademie, the highlight of the autumn. You also have the chance to win his new CD with his autograph by sharing the post of this episode on Facebook and tagging a friend that should listen to the episode. You find the post on Master in Music the facebook page. Now I wish you all a fantastic day. Cello-Akademie-Rutesheim.de Tchaikovsky & Gulda: Cello Concertos – Apple Music Tchaikovsky & Gulda: Cello Concertos – Spotify Jakob Spahn – Bayerische Staatsoper

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In this episode of Master in Music we reveal the women behind the microphone, Petronella Torin. It is an interview where our own Podcaster get to answer questions instead of asking them. We talk about why she is making this podcast, how to start a company and how to get on the first page in the news papers and sell nineteen concerts in less than ten days. She is a Musician, Podcaster and Teacher and here are some of her tips on living a musicians life. Who is interviewing, you wonder, since Petronella is being interviewed? Wiekie Stouten. She wrote to Master in Music and asked if she could interview Petronella and naturally, we said yes and why not make an episode out of it. Wiekie is currently making her first Master in Solo Singing at the Conservatorium in Tilburg as a Mezzo-Soprano. She has her first Master exam concert the 6th of June at 12.00 o’clock, singing an Opera of Janacek, Tillburg Conservatorium, Room A0016. wiekiestouten.com swedishcellist.com

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I hope you are doing well and I’d like to say thank you all for listening. It is a pleasure to see that the Master in Music podcast is reaching ears all over the world. Thank you for listening and please, if you want to share something or give me some tips on which guests to interview or feedback don’t hesitate to write me on my website or Facebook, A Swedish Cellist Petronella Torin. Today I present for you the second amazing episode from Rutesheim special. Rutesheim is a village in Germany where the Rutesheim cello festival is taking place every autumn right around my birthday. The applications have just been open for this year’s festival and what better way to celebrate this, than an interview from one of the eminent professors, Claudio Bohórquez. He is a soloist, a chamber musician, teacher and very good at table tennis. One of Rutesheim’s champions if you ask me. I was very nervous to ask him to participate in the podcast, I mean it is almost to good to be true that he said yes. He is not only an awesome cellist, he also has a warm personality. Claudio studied with the legendary cellist Boris Pergamenschikow. On his way to become a great cellist he was successful in a lot of fantastic competitions like the Rostropovich competition in Paris, the Tchaikovsky youth competition and he achieved three awards in the Pablo Casals competition.   A competition that was under the roof of the Kronberg Academy. Marta Casals Istomin presented Claudio Bohórquez with the first prize, a special award for the best chamber music, and also the use of Casals’ Gofriller cello for a period of two years. He also won first prize at the International Music Competition in Geneva, an achievement that started his

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Spring has come to the Netherlands!  It is tulips everywhere and I just came home from a rainy Paris where I had the pleasure to play in the centre Wallonia Brussels. I hope where ever you are listening to this podcast, that the winds of spring have reached you as well. In today’s episode, my guest is a man who really loves to work. He started out as a Psychologist and then one day he and his brother, who is a violin player, started an orchestra and bought a church to practise in.

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This is an extra episode that I like to add in a special edition: the Rutesheim cello academy edition. I had the pleasure of attending for the second year in a row the “Akademie Rutesheim Cello Festival” in Germany and naturally I took my podcast equipment with me when I had some of the world’s best cellists within my reach. Today’s guest in the Pod is no one else than Matthias Trück, a cellist and the festival leader and founder himself. He is an extraordinary person who has steered this festival for 10 years and built it up from zero to something that I like to call Cello heaven. It is seven days full of great concerts every evening with different constellations of chamber music and orchestral pieces for cello. The days are full of Masterclasses with eight different professors who are super cello stars. I had the pleasure to interview 6 of them and some of the great students attending the festival.  The festival also contains a Music fair with a lot of instrument builders, string companies and much much more. It is everything from Cello orchestra, classical cello to jazz masterclass. I was so happy that Matthias Trück let me interview some of the professors and himself in this interview. Where he tells some of the keys to a great festival, what is important and tips on how to create contacts.   Before we start, I’d like to thank our Partners: A Swedish cellist Student Radio Maastricht Guest partner Rutesheim cello Akademie Now let’s hear some music from Matthias cello quartet Quatrocelli in an arrangement from the quartet itself and after the interview, we can listen to what the students have to say about the festival and to one of the performances from the festival by 13-year-old cello

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Happy New Year Master in Music listeners! I hope you had a great start on your 2019, if not here is your chance to turn it around with an amazing interview with Doctor Ine Vanoveren, doctor in contemporary flute playing. This young and unusual flutist. has dedicated her life to modern art. Except having a doctor’s degree in Flute, she is also Assistant Professor Contemporary Flute – Conservatoire Royal de Liège, Belgium & Artistic Researcher – Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, Belgium. She chairs the Research Group ‘CREATION’ – Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, Belgium. In this episode, she shares her new book with us which is written to explain the mysteries of modern music. It is called  “Tomorrow’s music in practice today”.  Ine shares her methods of mastering modern music. She tells us about her projects “experiments are more refreshing then socks” and she tells us how, during her studies in California, she made a performance based on a man who accidentally shot himself which in real life was her friends best friend. We talk politics, life and death, and of course a lot about music. I also want to share with you a concert service that is called Take away concerts. It is a service I created in my company “A Swedish Cellist”. Imagine sitting in your home having a small party or dinner and suddenly a musician knocks on the door and comes and plays a short concert for you and your friends. It is affordable, accessible live music right to your doorstep. Pretty great. Now I want to start by inviting Ine Vanoveren to your ear with the piece “Vermont counterpoint” of Steve Reich. Our partners for this episode: Take Away concert with A Swedish Cellist, which is a concert service where you can order your own concert to your

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She is an amazing Valkyrie woman with a voice with the power of a goddess. At least since her last role as Electra in Richard Strauss Opera. She is a Dramatic Soprano who’s second home is the Opera stages. She has worked all over the world from Denmark in the north at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen, to the Arizona Opera. She has sung around 90 operatic roles as Turandot, Parsifal, Carmen and her latest grand interpretation of Electra. She has also written a research paper about Electra as a role in the Conservatorium Maastricht where she is a lecturer in Opera and Solo Singing. She tells us amazingly good advice on how to become a great opera singer and musician and how to cope with life on stage when you have to act in a love scene. She also tells us how, as a kid, she used to listen to jazz and how one day just walked into a theatre and asked them how she can become a singer. Before we start with the interview, let’s enjoy together Susanne Schimmack singing Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” (Last movement) with Concerto Dortmund. Our partners for this episode: Take Away concert with A Swedish Cellist, which is a concert service where you can order your own concert to your home Music for you Maastricht a new kind of music school with tailored music programs just for you Student radio Maastricht OperaBase.com Facebook Instagram

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Today’s episode is an amazing power woman called Fenna Ograjensek. She is an opera singer and a music producer. She studied in Maastricht (Netherlands) and in New York at Julliard School of Music. She has been singing in Carnegie Hall, Berliner Philharmonie and Concertgebouw all the way to Maastricht. She has an amazing foundation called Music young for old that enables music students to play concerts for the older generations. Music young for old has 500 concerts every year! That is a lot of concerts! And that is just for that foundation. Now she is working on her opera company “Opera compact”, with their current project called “I hate opera”, She is also Playing the part of Donna Elvira in the new production by Sybrand van der Werf’s version in “Opera Compact”. It is something I really look forward to in 2020 when the show premieres. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I do. It is filled with great advice and tips on how to get concerts and how to represent yourself as an artist so that you get booked for the jobs you want. Before we start with the interview, let’s enjoy together Fenna Ogrejensek singing Strauss with Gil Sharon violin and Ed Spanjaard piano. Our partners for this episode: Take Away concert with A Swedish Cellist, which is a concert service where you can order your own concert to your home Music for you Maastricht a new kind of music school with tailored music programs just for you Student radio Maastricht www.fennaograjensek.com www.muziekjongvooroud.nl Opera Compact Facebook Muziek Jong voor Oud Facebook