Teaching Historically Informed Performance
Historical cello teaching
Over the last few years, I have been asked more and more to teach historical (sometimes only baroque) cello. The sessions are tailored to each student's needs including working on the solo literature, of course, from Bach and Gabrielli to the beginning of the 19th century, but also regarding the continuo skills and how to accompany in a mindfully historical way. I have also worked with some institutions, such as youth orchestras that sought to form their members on historical playing (such as the Basque EGO Orchestra at Musikene Conservatoire after being invited by Lina Tur Bonet), and I have also been asked to lead and help with amateur orchestras bass/continuo sections.
General historically informed performance teaching
Through the personal invitation of Professor Ashley Solomon, Head of the Historical Performance Department at the Royal College of Music, I was hired as a Guest Lecturer on Historical Treatises and Sources at the RCM. I created a whole seminar (titled Talking to Ghosts) of six two-hour sessions partly based partly on my personal research and covering the topics that are not taught in the other subjects (from basic solmization, notation, rhetorics and counterpoint to the historical pioneers of the field, early recordings or many other sources on instrumental and vocal playing). The different sessions are half practical and half theorical and I work with the undergraduate and postgraduate students on their solo and chamber music repertoire from a historical perspective. I am open to teach this seminar in the same format or with variants for other institutions as well, since the idea is to introduce as fun and useful tools this "dusty boring" materials. An online version will come soon!