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Insular Worlds with Peter Gregson

Insular Worlds with Peter Gregson, Dobrawa Czocher, Dom La Nena, Sebastian Plano

Peter Gregson leads the discussion; he took up cello at age four after seeing James Bond sled down a mountainside on a cello case in The Living Daylights. You may have heard his cello solos in the soundtrack to the ѿý's Sherlock series, or on the album ‘÷ (Divide)’ by Ed Sheeran. He released his latest solo album ‘Patina’ in 2021.

Talking to him is Dobrawa Czocher, a Polish cellist who started playing at the age of 7. She’s an award-winning chamber and orchestra musician, and her motto is to never stop growing. At the start of 2023 she released her debut solo album ‘Dreamscapes’.

Next is Brazilian-born, Paris-based cellist Dom La Nena. She spent her teenage years studying cello in Buenos Aires with the renowned Christine Walevska before a pop apprenticeship backing Jane Birkin. She’s one half of Birds on a Wire and her stage name translates as “Dom the Little Girl”, an allusion to her time as a child prodigy.
And finally an Argentinian cellist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer, who is best known for his unique approach to music creation – uninterrupted nights playing and recording every single note by himself in his Berlin studio, layering each musical phrase at a time. It’s Sebastian Plano.

Together they’ll be talking about working with new collaborators, overcoming creative blocks, and how to define success.

In part 2 of the show, Dobrawa Czocher will be taking us through a playlist she’s called ‘Deepest Cello Tones’, a collection of tracks showcasing the best that the instrument has to offer, featuring tracks from Witold Lutosławski, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Stars Of The Lid and many more.

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50 minutes