He performs cello sonatas by Prokofiev, Poulenc and Elliott Carter with Mr. Pasternack, a pianist.
Maya Beiser performs the cello version of this at the Barbican's Sound Unbound weekend on Saturday, 8pm.
Charlotte Moorman performed the cello wearing a mask of Pablo Casals, miming to a record of his she had underneath the seat.
Last spring, I fell in love with the music of Dom La Nena, who composes and performs gorgeous cello pop, sometimes with a samba beat; she sings, softly but confidently, in French, Portuguese, Spanish, and English.
I've been equally entranced by the reissue of Midori Takada's "Through the Looking Glass Steve Reichich, but Japanese — and "Musique de Nuit," an album of instrumental music performed on cello and kora on a rooftop in Mali.
WORDLESS MUSIC SERIES In the first of two concerts this week, Ronen Givony's breakout series devoted to progressive music — classical and otherwise — offers a set from the Icelandic band Múm and the Montreal horn trio Torngat, along with the cellist Jihyun Kim, who performs solo cello works by Ligeti and Bach.
You may have already heard Daniel Crawford perform his cello composition "A Song for Our Warming Planet," built with notes representing each year's global average surface temperature: And you probably know about "Liberated Carbon," my very different musical take on the age of fossil fuels.
Merrie Cherry asked me to perform on cello as a closing number, so I was excited about that.
The first concert features the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio (Joseph Kalichstein on piano, Jaime Laredo on violin, and Sharon Robinson on cello), performing piano trios by Beethoven, Schumann, and Mendelssohn.
Mr. Watkins, 42, in addition to performing as a cello soloist, became the first music director of the English Chamber Orchestra in 2009 and is the principal guest conductor of the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
