This book and associated demonstration videos are unique newcomers to the colourful marketplace of teaching on cello technique. For the first time an advanced cello technique is explained and demonstrated via a thoroughly integrated book/video pairing. Even more importantly, the one author of both media is a unique mix of experience and expertise.After 53 years of playing and 45 of teaching, David Pereira is better than ever. He still is growing. He has been an outstanding, though not internationally celebrated, player and teacher, with a long and passionate drive to find, use, and teach, the best cello technique possible.As a student David received excellent tuition that prepared him for orchestral, chamber and solo professionalism, but left him with some technical weaknesses. These weaknesses led to mid-life injury and playing breakdown whose chief benefit was his starting over from scratch. He painstakingly invented his own technique ¿ from carefully chosen first principles, for example ¿ Can cello playing be natural and healthy? How? Years later this technique mostly closely resembles other virtuosic techniques, but it now is analysed with rare clarity and authority.Meanwhile, the author/player has lived and worked mostly far from the northern hemisphere mainstream of cello playing. He has been allowed a view of that mainstream like that of the Little Boy in ¿The Emperor¿s New Clothes.¿ He remains inquisitive and trusts his senses.Pereira Cello Technique is for any other cellist who is seeking truths about cello playing. The science of cello technique is studied in the practice and teaching studio, and on the stage. The good scientist is eager to discover their errors and seeks expert peer review.Pereira Cello Technique is precise and human, practical and philosophic, confident and open-minded, familiar but fresh, orthodox yet inventive. It is a distillation of sophisticated cello technique that is for Students of Cello at every level of development.Try it. Find out how good it feels and sounds.