Two Ways to work with me:

The 6 Month Cello Mentorship Program

Maybe you feel isolated in your musical world? Like you want to learn to play for and with others, but you just don't know how to do that?

Performing for others is a skill that you need to develop. You want to get yourself in a situation where you can play regularly for others in a safe, supportive space with cello instruction and performance growth happening simultaneously.

When you surround with a like minded cello playing community, and you are all working together towards similar goals...with an expert in your pocket to check in on you regularly and make sure you are moving forward with good cello technique and musicality, then success, for you, becomes inevitable.

That intimate, supportive cello community is Total Cello Immersion.

Six months. 

Small group. 

Weekly group coaching. 

Concerts.

Guest speakers.

A supplementary backup online vault of videos and class replays available 24-7.

A community of cellists who show up every single week and want the same thing you want.

TCI is small intimate group classes. 

Typically our TCI classes are 3-5 students playing at similar levels.

Every week you bring your piece and you play it out loud...for me and for your fellow students. Every week somebody hears you. Every week you get coached. Every week you get better at playing in front of other people.

That last part is the thing most adult cellists have never experienced. 

Practicing alone makes you better in private. Playing for someone every single week makes you better in public. Those are two completely different skills. TCI builds both at the same time.

Every class starts with thirty minutes together...scales, arpeggios, and monthly materials that we all work on as a group with me as the leader. You hear me play and you play along on mute. 

 I jump in the pool with you. You emulate my playing.

This is your weekly technical foundation. 

This is where you stop guessing and start understanding. 

Then each student plays individually. 

I coach you on your piece... the musical decisions, the technical challenges, the specific things that are holding you back. Your fellow students hear you. And you hear them. 

That is where a surprising amount of growth happens...because when you are listening to someone else play you are not worrying about yourself. You are just hearing the music and the coaching. And absorbing the gold.

Week after week. 

For six months.

WHAT IS INCLUDED:

• Weekly group coaching class...thirty minutes of group technical work followed by individual playing and coaching. I hear you. Every single week.
• Quarterly student performances — you play for each other in a real performance setting, low stakes, high support
• Guest speakers from the musical world...performers, teachers, musicians who bring their expertise and varying musical viewpoints into your experience to educate and inspire you
• A private Facebook group...your TCI community  will help you climb out of the river of misery between classes, questions and celebrations, before you get too far downstream...
• An extensive online instructional video and materials course, with guided curriculum  that you can use daily to enhance your learning in your own time
• Six months of being taken seriously as a cellist.  I will push you. And I can see where you are going before you even know you can get there.

WHO TCI IS FOR:

• You are done practicing alone.
• You want to play in front of people and actually feel good about it.
• You want a community of cellists who know your name and care whether you show up.
• You want someone coaching you every single week, not once in a while.
• You are ready to make a real commitment to your cello life and you want the structure and the people around you to make that commitment stick.
• You know that you want to call yourself a cellist. Because you are. And this program will get you to believe it.

New intermediate level TCI class starts August, 2026. 

Book your Play Better cello call by clicking on the Play Better Cello button above or below...

Many of my students start with Crash Course. 

They spend one month going deep on a piece with me privately. 

They feel what it is like to be taken seriously and coached at a high level. 

And then they want more — more consistency, more community, more of that feeling every single week.

That is when TCI becomes the obvious next step.

Some students come straight to TCI because they already know what they need. 

They have been practicing alone long enough. 

They do not need another month alone — they need a community and a weekly commitment. They come straight in and they do not look back.

Both paths work. 

The question is where you are right now and what you are ready for.

Either way the first step is the same:

BOOK A PLAY BETTER CELLO CALL

You play for me. I listen. We talk about where you are as a cellist, where you want to go, and what is actually possible for you. 

Most cellists have never had that conversation with anyone. They have never had someone really listen and say — yes, this is possible for you, and here is exactly how we get there.

That is what this call is.

At the end of the call you will know exactly which path is right for you — Crash Course, Total Cello Immersion, or something else entirely. 

No pressure. 

Just clarity.

Book Your call by clicking on the Play Better Cello button above...