Cello Museum Podcast

In this special short episode of the Cello Museum Podcast, Dr. Brenda Neece is joined by her friend and colleague Erica Lessie for a behind-the-scenes conversation about the Bethany Beach Cellofest. The Bethany Beach Cellofest is a supportive, non-competitive summer retreat for adult cellists. In this conversation, Brenda and Erica talk about why they created the Cellofest, why it takes place in B...

“Find role models everywhere. It doesn’t have to be in the field that your child is going into. And make them very proud of what they’re doing and never, never allow them a sense that they can’t do anything.” — Dr. Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason In this episode of the Cello Museum Podcast, Dr. Brenda Neece returns to a May 2021 Cello Book Club conversation with Dr. Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, author of House of M...

In this third episode of the Cello Museum Podcast, we celebrate International Book Day with a special conversation drawn from our Cello Book Club. Originally recorded in July 2021, this episode features author and cellist Kittie Lambton, who joined us from Greece to discuss her novella The Cellist’s Notebook —a story that weaves together music, memory, and family history across generations. The ep...

In this episode of the Cello Museum Podcast, composer Daniel DiMarino and cellist Dr. Jonathan Simmons take us inside the creation of "The Great Experiment," a newly commissioned work for cello and piano. Framed as a “study of energy,” the piece evolved through collaboration, revision, and performance. DiMarino shares his compositional process—from first ideas to final form—along with th...

In this episode of the Cello Museum Podcast, Dr. Brenda Neece speaks with Dr. Inbal Megiddo about recording J. S. Bach’s Cello Suites — a project that demands not only technical mastery, but artistic courage. Megiddo reflects on the long journey toward recording the six suites, including pandemic interruptions that led her to re-record the first three. The result, she explains, is not a definitive...