Rachel Mercer
Rachel Mercer is a really special musician, and I’m honoured to be able to play with her in her role as Principal Cellist of the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada. In this episode recorded in 2022, we discussed the arc of her career so far as a chamber musician, soloist, and Principal Cellist . One of the musical selections added to this podcast (coming May 25 2024 in the special re-release) is from the album “Our Strength, Our Song" with Rachel’s sister, the wonderful violinist Akemi Mercer-Niewöhner. We also talked about and many other chamber music collaborations and unique projects, as well as her way of approaching music. You’ll also hear some of Rachel’s memories of the late Yehonatan Berick who was an amazing violinist and pedagogue and was Rachel’s life partner. As well, Rachel very generously made a special recording of the prelude from JS Bach's fifth solo suite for this episode in 2022, and her heartfelt introduction to the power of this music is right after our conversation, so please keep listening till the end.
A special re-release with added music from some of her recordings, May 25 2024. This was orginally recorded and released in Season 2 of these podcast in 2022, and now in Season 4 2024 Rachel and I are including some tracks from some of her albums in the podcast version of this episode. The video linked below is the original release:
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