# Cello - In Search of a Voice

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Dr Kate Kennedy
- Year: 2026
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: History, Art, architecture and design, Music
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/cello-voice)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

How do we tell stories of past voices through a cello, the voice of its player? This lecture explores what it means to be separated from your voice, and to find it again.Dr Kate Kennedy traces a journey she took across Europe with her cello, to uncover the stories of instruments and their players. The result was a host of eccentric, sometimes tragic, always extraordinary accounts of silencing and survival, from the Auschwitz orchestra to a shipwreck, and even a cello full of bees.

## Lectures

1. [Cello - In Search of a Voice](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/cello-voice/a95318740167) (Audio)