For Students

The Festival’s Educational Mission
With a roster of artists that includes many well-known pedagogues, the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival gives nearly equal time to teaching and performing. The 2020 Festival will include many events that serve to instruct and inform.

Festival Fellows

Accomplished young artists are selected to participate as Fellows based on recommendations from artists and teachers around the world. These students perform in the master classes and the Improvisation Workshop, and are part of the mass cello ensemble.

Young Cellists Workshop

Clive Greensmith and Vardan Gasparyan will direct this workshop to rehearse and perform cello ensemble music in a morning concert in A&E Schoenfeld Symphonic Hall (USC University Park Campus)

Time and Place: March 22, 2020, 11:30am at A&E Schoenfeld Symphonic Hall

Program:

– Pie Jesu – Gabriel Faure, arr. by Rick Mooney

– Oblivion – Astor Piazzolla, arr. by Niall Ferguson

– Jellacic March – Johann Strauss, transcribed and edited by Valter Despalj

Audition requirements:

Ages 13 – 17

  1. A 3 minute (maximum) selection from a work of your own choosing (recorded within the last year, with or without accompaniment)
  2. Excerpts from Faure: Pie Jesu Excerpt
  3. Excerpts from Piazzolla (the top solo line is optional for those who would like to audition for the solo part): Piazzolla Excerpt

The audition video should NOT be edited

Recordings of the Piazzolla Strauss, and Faure may be found at

–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8KmjzQs0x4

–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysK6H1JuJYk

–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNhJRLaMlk0

Post the Video on YouTube by 10/30/2019

For help posting YouTube videos try:

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55736

And/or http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=57924

By 11/01/2019 send a link to your YouTube video via email to: 

workshopforyoungcellists2020@gmail.com

This email MUST include:

  1. Your name
  2. Age
  3. Parent/Guardian’s name and phone number
  4. Parent address
  5. Link to your YouTube video