Cello Lessons

While many cello programs only teach classical music, we focus on your goals.

We are happy to work with you on the music that you want to learn.

If you want to play the music of today, you’ll learn a solid cello technique just like our classical students. But we’ll apply your cello skills to the music that you want to play.

We believe that private lessons with one-on-one instruction provide you with the best chance of success. That's why we invest so much into our teacher training and private lesson program.

Most group classes are not very effective for learning to play the cello. However, they do provide some benefits like community, learning ensemble skills, and more. So we offer additional group classes to our private cello students so they can develop those skills, too.

Many of our students are interested in learning the music of the past masters of the cello like Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Beethoven and Mozart. This music requires a high level of focus, precision, and skill. Our faculty, with master’s degrees in cello performance, have performed this music all over the world and gained the experience necessary to help you develop the skills you need to making meaningful and masterful performances of this great repertoire. Many of our students learn this music for fun, while others are preparing for Master’s Degree, College, or competitions like NYSSMA. Whatever your goals, we are happy to help you flourish as a classical cellist.

We get a few requests for Suzuki cello lessons. We've got much respect for what Suzuki was trying to accomplish. He had noble goals for developing children that we share. However, we know so much more bout learning than they did 100 years ago.

We also believe in helping students and parents achieve their individual goals. Methods that rely on graded assignments don't allow for personalization or an individual approach.

Our Arpeggio® lesson system provides the best, modern methods for learning the cello coupled with an individual approach.