{"id":4633,"date":"2020-10-09T20:01:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T20:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amateurmusic.org\/info\/?p=4633"},"modified":"2021-01-19T14:10:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T22:10:33","slug":"blogpostwilliamskeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amateurmusic.org\/info\/blogpostwilliamskeen\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet William Skeen, Baroque cello mentor"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4633\" class=\"elementor elementor-4633\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6b164c84 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6b164c84\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ac61e2e\" data-id=\"ac61e2e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6aa75e5b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6aa75e5b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>Our Early Music for Modern Instruments series continues with <a href=\"https:\/\/amateurmusic.org\/info\/resources\/ow-williamskeen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an October 17 online workshop<\/a> taught by William Skeen, a principal cellist with <a href=\"https:\/\/philharmonia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/americanbach.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Bach Soloists<\/a>. Bill is also the co-founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newesterhazy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Estherhazy Quartet<\/a>, whose repertoire includes more than 150 string quartets performed exclusively on gut strings. He spoke with us from his home in Oakland to give us a glimpse into the life of an early-music specialist.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div> <a href=\"https:\/\/amateurmusic.org\/info\/blogpostwilliamskeen\/#more-4633\" class=\"more-link elementor-more-link\">Read More\u2026<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\"Meet William Skeen, Baroque cello mentor\"<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13,27,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mentors","category-early-music","category-strings","category-workshops"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Meet William Skeen, Baroque cello mentor - 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