Interview with Asier Polo (II): As a professional, you need to be capable of doing everything

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 serie of two interviews he proved to be an avid conversationalist and an intriguing source of information and entertainment. In Part I he discussed 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. Here, in Part II,…