Mariachi Education Resources
You Can Add Mariachi Into Your Program! - Handout from the American String Teachers Association National Conference 2022
Guitar Education Resources
STRENGTHEN YOUR STRING STORM - Inclusion of Guitar within Orchestral and Mariachi Ensembles! - Handout from the American String Teachers Association National Conference 2024
Beginning Strings Resources
The Set-Up Song
Bow Techniques
Legato Bowing Techniques
Videos Featuring the Violin
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Vivaldi: Concerto for Two Violins
Black Violin - Stereotypes
Jascha Heifetz - Bach: Chaconne
Janine Jansen - Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Jenny Yun - Exo: Monster
Luke Price - Fiddle Tunes
Videos Featuring the Viola
Le Violins du Roy - Telemann: Double Viola Concerto
David Aaron Carpenter - Brahms and Bridge Selections
Timothy Ridout - Sitt, Rubinstein, and Schumann
Videos Featuring the Cello
Anner Bylsma - J.S. Bach: Suite No. 1
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Portland Cello Project - Gideon Freudmann: "Denmark"
Break of Reality - "Spectrum of the Sky"
Yo-Yo Ma - C. Saint-Saens: The Swan
Truls Mørk - Dvorak: Cello Concerto
Guo/Pejtsik - HAVASI Cello Battle
Tafelmusik - Vivaldi: Concerto for Two Cellos
Tina Guo - Wonder Woman
Videos Featuring the Bass
William Xucla - Eccles: Sonata in G Minor (originally for violin)
Matthew McDonald - Koussevitzky: Valse Miniature
Videos Featuring the Guitar
Ana Vidovic - Isaac Albéniz: Asturias
Pablo Sainz Villegas - Rodrigo: Concerto for Guitar
Videos Featuring Groups of Assorted Strings
Perlman and Zukerman - Handel-Halvorsen: Passacaglia
Fretless - Lulu
Dolce Ensembles - ‘Kashmir’, ‘Stairway to Heaven’, and ‘Smooth Criminal’
Castle on the Hill - Ed Sheeran | Diamond White, Mario Jose, KHS Cover
Ilumina Festival - Maurice Ravel: String Quartet - Assez vif, très rythmé
Voices of Music - Bach: Air on the G String: Voices of Music
Gergiev with London Symphony Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet
The Academy of Ancient Music - Handel: Concerti Grossi Op. 6 No.1-12
Rhapsody Philharmonic - Avicii: Wake Me Up - Flashmob
Live Streams of Concerts
What Is Music? What is Good Music?
Creation of Musical Instruments
Gut Strings for Baroque Instruments
The Experience of Playing/Listening to Music
Zurich Chamber Orchestra Rollercoaster
This Toddler Hearing 'Moonlight' Sonata is All of Us Right Now
Practice Strategies for Bowed-Strings
Conquering Coordination Through Broken-Rhythm Patterns
Music and Science
Summer Camps, Institutes, and Festivals
Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp
Interlochen Summer Arts Camp
Aria International Summer Academy
Indiana University Summer String Academy
Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute
Le Domaine Forget
Aspen Music Festival
Tanglewood Music Festival
Grammy Camp
A variety of online resources for cellists of all levels and all ages.
www.cellobello.com
www.celloonline.com
www.mindfulcellist.wordpress.com
Online stores for most items that you may need to play.
Southwest Strings
Shar Music
West Music
Sweetwater
Amazon - Please do not purchase instruments here! Most of the instruments will not work. It’s best to visit your local music store, and rent-to-own programs are typically the best choice for beginning musicians!
Free sheet music for beginning and intermediate cello
www.8notes.com/cello
www.celloonline.com
Free sheet music for intermediate to professional level cello
www.imslp.org
Scholarship Opportunities
Choir
Alison N. Roman Memorial Scholarship
Post-Secondary Music
Music Performance Trust Fund
Mariachi Workshops, Conferences, and Summits
Aspen Music Festival and School Mariachi Workshop
National Mariachi Education Workshops
Viva Southwest Mariachi Conference
Tucson International Mariachi Conference
San Diego International Mariachi Summit
University Mariachi Programs
Metropolitan State University - Denver
The University of New Mexico
Miking Strategies
Violinists Discuss the Best Ways to Capture a Pure Acoustic Sound in Studio and Onstage