Cello Playing and Mastery

Overview

As part of Tuggeranong Arts Centre’s Saturday Salon series, join David Pereira for a unique, interactive examination of the inner and outer games of the cello. Explore technique, philosophy, and personal expression, in music and word, with a cello virtuoso whose deep love of the instrument continues after 60 years!

David Pereira is an unusually gifted and experienced musician who has a passion for cello, composition, improvisation and diverse collaborations. In this one-presentation David exposes, through talk and playing, the exciting and surprising meeting grounds of these creative elements.

The center piece of the program is his new work – Sacred Bond – music for solo cello that started out as a free improvisation for his recently passed Dad, then became a composition for anybody to perform with piano accompaniment composed by his wonderful pianist colleague Edward Neeman. This will receive its premier performance at Tuggeranong Arts Centre on 12 October.

There also will be time for David and Edward to perform some beautiful cello/piano standards.