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I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future husband and I danced to it so many Saturday nights when we were in college.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just wanted to try and expand my vocabulary and bring that different kind of music to my audience.

I love music so much; I've always played.

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.