Niccolo Seligmann, tenor viola da gamba
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This is my first video featuring the viola da gamba, the early music instrument I’ve been playing the longest and the instrument on which I got my music school degree. Even then, this is a tenor viol, not the bass viol that I spent most of the past fifteen years learning, on the left of the wide shot. Why have I waited so long to feature the family of instruments I’m most experienced at?
My sophomore year at Peabody Conservatory, I was really struggling, and was considering dropping out of school. Part of my frustration was the emphasis on doubling on baroque cello, an instrument that I respect and appreciate, but just don’t enjoy playing nearly as much. Most professional gambists, perhaps particularly in my generation, take the “baroque orchestral mostly-cellist who do