Laura Bontrager

To enroll in CelloKids Teacher Training Seminar. The grant covers the tuition.

In August 2020, CelloBello offered its CelloKids Teacher Training Seminar. This 14-session course covered a broad range of teaching topics, including approaches to teaching beginners and more advanced students, incorporating improvisation into the teaching process, practice skills, and explorations of the cello itself and the experience of creating sound on it. Instructors included Paul Katz, Andrea Yun, Madeleine Golz, Mike Block, Sandy Kiefer, and Yari Bond. The recorded sessions were made available for viewing through the CelloBello archive until the end of September, and I subscribed so as not to miss out. Since then, I have watched and reviewed the seminar. It was wonderful, and I've already begun incorporating suggestions from it into my teaching.