The Cello Institute of Milwaukee

01/12/2026

Congratulations Shane! Thank you for your terrific Book 1 recital yesterday! What a huge accomplishment!

08/21/2025

Collin Runnoe is featured in this article by The Strad magazine! Please read his extreemly well written responses about his experience playing with the National Youth Orchestra of the USA. CIM proud!!!!

From Tokyo's Suntory Hall to Beijing's NCPA and the Seoul Arts Centre, the National Youth Orchestra of the USA journeyed across Asia this summer with Gianandrea Noseda on the podium. Violinist Rebekah Koh and cellist Collin Runnoe talk about the experiences that will stay with them long after the fi...

04/18/2025

Don't miss this concert!! Go Collin!!

03/02/2025

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01/17/2025

Join us on Thursday night! "New" pieces by Klengel, Haydn, Boccherini, Beethoven, Shostakovich and more!

12/09/2024

Few adults play musical instruments, and even fewer do so in a group, Caroline Mimbs Nyce writes. What health benefits might they be giving up? https://theatln.tc/oglkQfzJ

“Kids receive plenty of music education, but as people get older, they fall out of practice. Many stop picking up their instrument,” Nyce writes. “This is unfortunate, in part because plenty of research shows that adults could benefit from playing music.”

Playing music helps build larger brain networks and new pathways. “Musicians tend to have better attention than nonmusicians,” Nyce continues. “Banging on a drum or tooting a horn can also relieve stress, reduce burnout, and help with anxiety and depression. For older people specifically, research has shown potential cognitive benefits along with a possible decrease in dementia risk.”

Adults may be skipping out in part because music education is associated with childhood and coursework. And after people grow out of music education in their childhood, they tend to think that music is a special talent, Nyce writes, not something that just anybody can learn.

“Of course, people are busy; they simply may not have the luxury of sitting down to study Bach once a week, much less the money to pay for an instrument or private lessons,” Nyce writes.

Playing music in groups has additional benefits, such as allowing adults to feel more trusting of and connected to one another, and to the world in general. But while it’s easy to go to a park or gym and pull together a game of pickup basketball, “piecing together people at the same skill level to play a concerto or even just jam in a garage is another matter.”

Nyce herself recently began to play the recorder. “I plan to keep learning,” she writes, “not because it strengthens my neuropathways per se (though I certainly don’t mind that), but because making music, even when it’s silly—perhaps especially when it’s silly—is just a whole lot of fun.” https://theatln.tc/oglkQfzJ

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12/06/2024

11/21/2024

A little snow isn't stopping us! Tonight at 7pm. The Road to Cello Playing! See you there! Some of your favorite cello hits played by your favorite cellists!

Join us for our 2024-25 season!