The official podcast of the Cello Museum.
Through conversations with performers, scholars, makers, and innovators, the Cello Museum Podcast explores the past, present, and future of the cello. Hosted by Dr. Brenda Neece and members of the Cello Museum team, each episode highlights the artistry, ideas, and individuals shaping the cello world today.
In this special short episode of the Cello Museum Podcast, Dr. Brenda Neece is joined by her friend and colleague Erica Lessie for a behind-the-scenes conversation about the Bethany Beach Cellofest. The Bethany Beach Cellofest is a supportive, non-competitive summer retreat for adult cellists. In this conversation, Brenda and Erica talk about why they created the Cellofest, why it takes place in Bethany Beach, Delaware, and the kind of experience they are building: serious cello study, time b...
29 May 2026
House of Music: Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason on Motherhood, Music, and Family
“Find role models everywhere. It doesn’t have to be in the field that your child is going into. And make them very proud of what they’re doing and never, never allow them a sense that they can’t do anything.” — Dr. Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason In this episode of the Cello Museum Podcast, Dr. Brenda Neece returns to a May 2021 Cello Book Club conversation with Dr. Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, author of House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons. We originally chose this book for our May 2021 Cello Book Club i...
30 Apr 2026
The Cellist’s Notebook: Kittie Lambton on Music, Memory, and Storytelling
In this third episode of the Cello Museum Podcast, we celebrate International Book Day with a special conversation drawn from our Cello Book Club. Originally recorded in July 2021, this episode features author and cellist Kittie Lambton, who joined us from Greece to discuss her novella The Cellist’s Notebook—a story that weaves together music, memory, and family history across generations. The episode opens with a reading from the book, in which a young girl discovers a hidden cello in her gr...
29 Mar 2026
Composing The Great Experiment: Daniel DiMarino on Cello, Collaboration, Energy, and Voice
In this episode of the Cello Museum Podcast, composer Daniel DiMarino and cellist Dr. Jonathan Simmons take us inside the creation of "The Great Experiment," a newly commissioned work for cello and piano. Framed as a “study of energy,” the piece evolved through collaboration, revision, and performance. DiMarino shares his compositional process—from first ideas to final form—along with the challenges of writing for cello and piano for the first time. The conversation explores: Writing fo...
27 Feb 2026
Recording the Bach Suites: Inbal Megiddo on Risk, Voice, and Freedom
In this episode of the Cello Museum Podcast, Dr. Brenda Neece speaks with Dr. Inbal Megiddo about recording J. S. Bach’s Cello Suites — a project that demands not only technical mastery, but artistic courage. Megiddo reflects on the long journey toward recording the six suites, including pandemic interruptions that led her to re-record the first three. The result, she explains, is not a definitive statement on Bach, but a deeply personal moment in an ongoing artistic life. The conversation ex...
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