Teachers in previous years

Anner Bylsma • Mats Lidström • Ralph Kirshbaum
Morten Zeuthen • Bjorn Bantock

Mats Lidström

Voltaire heard the great Pierre Duport play the cello, and exclaimed "you make me believe in miracles; you know how to make a nightingale out of an ox."

Personally, I find it fascinating that you can do both! Or anything you want,if you have the technique... But whether it is done on the cello or not, is of less importance; surely, the aim must be to show my audience that there is a world, beautiful and varied, beyond down and up bows?

Enter the big topics: the search for an inner voice and something to say with your music.For the gifted ones, it is a lifetime search.Teaching helps, because then you think about it all the time. And to walk on stage with a piece of music unknown to the audience gives you the feeling of telling them something for the first time. Playing to children also shows who you are. They will always want to sit up close, if they notice that you have a passion for what you are doing! It is like they know by instinct: "I mustn't miss this...!."

www.matslidstrom.com