An Etude Manual For The Bow

Sean Hawthorne

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Name: Sean Hawthorne Main Subject: Cello Research Coach: Stefan Petrovic Title of Research: An Etude Manual For The Bow Question: How can we best use a short collection of etudes to build the foundation for the consistent development of artistic freedom in the bow? Summary of Results: Etudes are extremely beneficial to instrumentalists because of their unique ability to build fundamentally important techniques while simultaneously applying them to musical ideas. It is very easy to select the etudes that one plays based on arbitrary factors. I propose here a short collection of etudes that have been chosen because of the ways in which they compliment one another. The point of this manual is to introduce a new and organized way of thinking about physical development through etudes. My aim is to introduce cellists to a way of approaching these works with utmost awareness. It is imperative that we never stop carefully considering our fundamentals, developing new techniques or pushing our acquired techniques beyond current limit. Cellists have been given the tremendous gift of a thoroughly comprehensive selection of etudes. Many of the most historically relevant performing cellists contributed to the literature through their own etude compositions. In this report, I focus on David Popper, Carlo Alfredo Piatti and Jean-Louis Duport. I have chosen two etudes by each composer that together provide an integrated and synergistic daily education in the use of the bow as an artistic medium. This is a collection of six etudes which, when practiced in succession, will establish a greater foundation for fluid and elegant artistic expression in the bow. Even more importantly, it will demonstrate a method of daily etude practice that any cellist can replicate with any etudes to solve physical problems that obstruct artistic output. Biography: Sean Hawthorne is a 23-year-old cellist studying with Michel Strauss and Jan Ype Nota at Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag. Prior to his attendance here, Sean studied The Juilliard School with Richard Aaron. He served as principal cellist of numerous orchestras including the National Repertory Orchestra and the Juilliard Chamber Orchestra. Additionally, Sean performed Tchikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme and Strauss’s Don Quixote as a soloist with the National Repertory Orchestra. In 2014 Sean was selected as the IOS Cello Apprentice with the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada. He served as a member of the section for ten weeks.

type	research exposition
date	01/01/2015
published	28/05/2015
last modified	28/05/2015
status	limited publication
share status	private
license	All rights reserved
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/108277/137031
published in	KC Research Portal
portal issue	3. Internal publication
connected to	KC Research Portal

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