Cello & Voice
“Cello&Voice” is a project which evolved from my will to play the cello in an unprecedented and original way. I believe the perspective of only sitting with the instrument before a musical sheet and reproduce a technique, without creating, without inventing new lines and functions for the cello is one of the past. This work also came from the search for a voice, a singing which could blend to the cello sound, singing that for many years I have looked for in other singers, but against all my shyness, finally came up from myself.
Years of extensive study have passed since the idea for this project emerged. The challenge continues to be great. As a teenager, I constantly listened to singers who sang accompanying themselves with the guitar and I always wondered why cellists didn’t do the same. The answers are always the same: “the cello is a solo instrument, a melody instrument,” or “the cello is classical music instrument, not a popular one.” Despite the obstacles and belief from others that this would never materialize, my will and the call to create something new succeeded. Some of this work is registered on the “Cello & Voice - I Can Fly” album, and also on the Cello & Voice show in arrangements for selected songs for voice and cello and in songs of my own.