She is singing and playing a drum with her foot while playing her cello. How did Diletta Fosso's journey in music begin? The songs featured in this episode are: 7 years (Lukas Graham) Makeba (Jain) and Counting Stars (One Republic) ------------------------------------------------ Diletta on Instagram Make a comment on the episode here Support this podcast via Ko-fi Are you curious about The Box? Use code CELLO for 30% off your first month ..read more

Everybody's story is different - why does someone spend countless hours on making cover videos for Instagram? Why not choose a job with a steady income? In this episode, Ragnhild talks with Madeleine Ladore -a cellist who has been working on her business only for a few years but who has managed to grow a loyal following. "People like to hear the music that they like." Madeleine Ladore has walked the path from deciding to play the cello for a living, to make content for social media platforms, to learn about marketing and video making and how to get your songs into playlists on Spotify... It's ..read more

Have you heard of the music box? Could a nebula in space have anything to do with a composer's research? In this episode, Ragnhild talks with Wilma Pistorius -a cellist, composer and Alexander Technique teacher who is based in Amsterdam. As a composer today, how do you make connections? Wilma talks about her approach to this, being herself on the introverted side and would be happy to spend the evening with a book rather than being out socializing. Being a composer today involves making oneself visible (and audible, of course!), doing one's own PR, taking initiatives and being proactive, and b ..read more

Kaja Draksler has spent the past several years composing, rehearsing, touring and recording. Early in 2023 she became a mother and thus a new chapter has begun. The featured music: 'Trboje' from the album Zürich Concert with Punkt.Vrt.Plastik 'Danas, Jučer Sutra' from the album Out for Stars with Kaja Draksler Octet 'Away!' from the album In Otherness Oneself Kaja's Website ------------------------------------------------ Ragnhild's online Cello Course, get 15% off with the code TMJP at check-out. Are you curious about The Box? Use code CELLO for 30% off your first month ..read more

Everybody's story is different - why the cello? Where did we start? What were the challenges and how did we overcome them? In this episode, Ragnhild talks with one of her cello students about learning the cello as an adult. ------------------------------------------------ Ragnhild's online Cello Course. Get 15% off with the code TMJP at check-out. Are you curious about The Box? Use code CELLO for 30% off your first month. ----------------------------------------------- Support this podcast via Ko-fi The Musician's Journey Podcast's playlist on Spotify Ragnhild's Instagram Make a comment on the ..read more

Is there room for more books about composers? Yes. 'Iconic Composers' is not just children friendly, but it sticks out in the way that it features lesser known female composers and composers of different skin colors. In addition, each of the 50 composers is illustrated by David Lee Csicsko. Boiling down countless hours of research into 250 words per composer was quite a challenge, but the authors found a useful approach: "How can we make people excited enough to go and learn even more about them?" Emi's love for research on composers is contagious. Throughout her research she has come across p ..read more

I don't play the cello every day. There are in fact few things that I do every day. When there is a voice in me that says “I should have done this today, and I didn't.” I can observe that this is a thought. It's not some voice of universal truth, or someone I know blaming me for something. It's a thought in my head. It's as if my thoughts don't always trust me to do the right thing…! In fact, my thoughts are the thoughts of a lunatic. They contradict each other and are not coherent and they will throw me from one state of mind to another. I'm not saying that I'm suffering from a mental illness ..read more

When you're learning to read sheet music, you're preparing for being able to play classical music. But what if you're interested in playing your cello in a different setting? Pop, rock, jazz, -many of these other music genres use chords more than the written out music we find in sheet music. If you want to play along to your favourite pop song, it'll be a lot easier for you if you have knowledge about the chords. That way, you can in most cases look up the song online, find the chords straight away and start playing. As cellists we often have a bass function, which is fortunate since the bass ..read more

Even smaller towns may have their own local amateur symphony orchestra, or string orchestra. And if you don't have that where you live, there are plenty of different orchestra courses happening one or more times a year in a lot of different places in this so-called Western world. And besides that, I'll mention that when I was younger I really enjoyed playing along to recordings of orchestral music. It's hard to know when to start playing when you can't see the conductor of course, but apart from that it went pretty well. Playing in an orchestra is simply amazing. A good number of people gettin ..read more

'What to play?' is the topic of this episode, now that we have 1) our intention in order 2) everything we need to get started 3) a cello teacher 4) an idea of how to practice I know it's a bit weird that I'm talking about this as if you already have a cello teacher, cause why would you be here in that case? I'm here just aiming to give you an impression of how the cellist journey might look like in the beginning. So. The common way to start is to acquire a teaching book. There are many of them to choose from. Any of them will get you started, it's hard to go wrong. I'd say you can browse the i ..read more