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Though I've played the cello most of my life, I spent my early years playing strictly classical repertoire: in solo recitals, orchestras, and chamber music groups all over the world. When we started Allegra in 1982, all that changed. With two violins, a viola, and of course the cello, we play about 100 "gigs" per year, and we've found that people especially like our lighter music - show tunes, jazz, the Beatles. I started writing arrangements for the group, and I became hooked.

In the last few years, I started to do more solo playing - from the Bach Marathon, which I love, to background music for parties of hundreds (yes, you can hear the cello from across the room). I'm still playing on stage, but now I've added programs of lighter music that encourage the audience to sing and dance along.

My horizons are still expanding - I've done "gigs" with harpists or guitarists, I've improvised cello parts for CDs of gospel music or folk guitar, I've arranged quartet parts to back up a rock group. I'm fortunate to live in a booming city, where every year brings exciting new projects and opportunities.

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