Halley Feaster is a Berklee-educated contemporary and classical acoustic and electric cellist whose parents owned Island Audio Video for nearly 50 years. In 2018 she and her husband, Michael Engesser, moved to the West Coast, where they have been finding success in music-related pursuits.
HOT OFF THE PRESS: Halley Feaster, who grew up on LBI, is already working on a Volume 2, for positions 5 through Thumb. (Courtesy Halley Feaster)
Her latest brings to fruition an 18-month project that began in the fall of 2020 – a 52-page instructional guide for cello players, Cello Position Handbook, Volume 1, published by MelBay, a leader in music publishing since 1947.
Feaster said she designed the guide with her own students in mind.
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