News & features

Gautier Capuçon playing in a plane engine

Watch cellist Gautier Capuçon serenade us from INSIDE an aeroplane engine

Cello hair problems

16 string player confessions that will make you say ‘same’

Cow whisperer

Watch: Cows come running to hear cellist playing Irish folk song

Videos

Cellist removed from an American Airlines flight

‘We demand an apology’: cellist removed from American Airlines flight after buying extra seat for instrument

Dominik Połoński has died, aged 41

Cellist who lost the use of his left hand because of brain cancer dies, aged 41

Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Florian Leonhard

Sheku Kanneh-Mason took his cello in for a service – and we went along

Sheku Kanneh-Mason

2CELLOS

Who are 2CELLOS and what did they play at the UEFA Champions League final?

2Cellos

Leonard Elschenbroich and Edward Elgar

Elgar's Cello Concerto: a work torn between nostalgia for the past and fear of the future

Elgar

string instruments quiz

How well do you know your string instruments?

Lifestyle

viola da gamba smashed final

‘The airline is dodging responsibility’, says owner of a smashed viola da gamba

Apocalyptica Metallica cover

Metallica’s ‘Orion’ played on cellos is face-meltingly awesome

Sheku Kanneh-Mason Evening of Roses

Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs at the Baftas 2018 – and becomes first musician to perform at the awards twice

Events

stolen cello

A cellist’s 18th-century instrument has been stolen in Paris

Gautier Capucon

This cellist performed The Swan at 3,356m and in minus 15 degrees…

Gautier Capuçon

Red Priest

Watch some gorgeous Handel at The Foundling Museum

Red Priest

Cello bow fail

This cellist dropped his bow mid-performance but recovered like an absolute pro

Sheku No Woman No Cry

This virtuoso cello arrangement of ‘No Woman No Cry’ is inventive and beautiful

NYOGB Blavatnik Scholars

Meet James, one of the inspirational Blavatnik Scholars of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain