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Laury Gutiérrez
Laury Gutiérrez is a performer, scholar, teacher, and passionate advocate for underrepresented musicians. The Venezuelan viola da gamba player became a Fellow in 2008–2009 for the Harvard Radcliffe Institute working on a project to develop the repertory of music composed by Italian women into concert and educational programs for performance and professional recordings. Suzanne spoke…
Award winning cellist Bion Tsang is an international soloist and chamber musician, as well as a teacher. He recently released a recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s 6 Suites for Unaccompanied Cello – the “holy grail” for all serious cellists. Bion Tsang’s performance is extra-special because he used an extraordinary instrument considered one of the world’s…
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello are such exquisite compositions that it’s not only cellists who are eager to play them. Zachary Carrettín is a violinist, violist, and conductor. He has a new recording of Bach’s Cello Suites played on viola, and he joined Suzanne to talk about it, and about his varied…