Mats by Mats
CV, unconventional
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...!."
Here follow a few quotes,as appropriate as they are beautiful.
"Every great artist has the sense of provocation.
He sees beauty not only in beautiful things."
(Arthur Cravan, poet and boxer, 1912)
"The work of the imagination consists in attempting to formulate all
that is best, everything that goes beyond reality. Art, and above
all, music, consists in lifting us as far as possible above what is."
(Gabriel Fauré, 1908)
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance
from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in
lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without
guidance of another. It is each person's calling to think for himself."
(Immanuel Kant, 1784)
