When the cello is heard in pop music, it’s usually to provide solemn accompaniment to a poignant ballad, be it the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” or Nirvana’s “All Apologies.” In the hands of Melora Creager ...

From this week’s “Rockelbel’s Cannon” to the “Cello Wars” spoof on the Star Wars soundtrack, to the “Smooth Criminal” low-strung duel, the cello has gone viral. The last two videos saw over 5 million ...

The city of Santa Monica is many things to many people: To some, it is a playground for the super wealthy; Jack’s Mannequin deemed it home to a freak show. But cello rock duo Oak and Gorski could call ...

SEATTLE — Cello X began as an experiment of the group's director Peter Williams to push the boundaries of Cello playing. They play a broad range of tunes from hard rock to classical. The group has ...

The Oregon Symphony's Nancy Ives. (Photo by Torsten Kjellstrand) Nancy Ives, principal cello ( Torsten Kjellstrand) After centuries of playing second fiddle to the flashy violin, then decades being ...

In 2003, Eastman School of Music student Patrick Laird asked his friend, percussionist Ivan Trevino, to play drums for a cello rock group he was forming. “I didn’t know what ‘cello rock’ was or what ...

There was a time when a cello in a rock arrangement was practically a novelty. A cello may have provided the beating heart of the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby,” and iconoclasts like Eno, Nick Drake, David ...

Two musicians are using the cello to play contemporary rock music, drawing millions of YouTube views and filling concert halls. Stjepan Hauser, from Croatia, and Luka Sulić, from Slovenia, are both ...

Rebecca Roudman started playing the cello as a child growing up in Terra Linda, performed with the Marin Youth Orchestra, studied classical music in college, and is now a member of the Santa Rosa and ...

When Nicole Myers was in third grade at Lincoln Elementary School in Ephrata, a group of high school string-quartet players performed for her class. “I kind of fell in love with the cello at that ...