Saturday, December 3, 2016

Frans Helmerson at Juilliard

www.piatigorskyfestival.usc.edu/artists/
I went to Frans Helmerson's cello masterclass at Juilliard tonight and sat for three hours, transfixed by him, as he tutored James Jeonghwan Kim, Xinchi Wang and Mariko Wyrick, all brilliant graduate students, in Schumann, Rachmaninoff and Poulenc. The famous Carlos Avila accompanied. All in a day's work for them, and for Juilliard, and they let us in to gape, in fact they welcomed us. It was amazing. So, now I feel very unaccomplished and wish I had practised more.
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