As a boy during an amazingly fertile 5 years Asier Polo metamorphosized from an eager learner of the cello to the teenage recipient of Spain’s most sought after prize for promising young musicians (Concurso Nacional de Juventudes Musicales 1987). Today twenty years down the road he is probably among the top 10 players worldwide and fast on his way to becoming, by the time his is forty, among the top three, a star in the micro-universe of classical cellists.
In this series of two interviews he proved to be an avid conversationalist and an intriguing source of information and entertainment. In 'Part I' he discusses the challenge of acquiring a valuable string instrument like his Cremona-built cello in Spain, his ideas on teaching methodologies, his personal experience as a student of cello and marketing in the music world. In 'Part II' our…
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