Naomi Yandell
Cambridge-based Music Consultant,
Teacher, Author, Editor
Naomi Yandell teaches cello and music theory at Stringmoves and has a thriving private studio. Many of her students have won scholarships and places at UK conservatoires and specialist music schools. Naomi is the author of Introducing Theory of Music and the Trinity Theory of Music Workbooks Grades 1-8. She was the ESTA Regional Officer for Cambridgeshire for many years and often writes for The Strad on aspects of teaching.
With Celia Cobb as co-author, she has written Take Your Bow (a collection of 20 concert pieces for beginner string players) and Sight Reading: A Progressive Method (a series of twelve sight-reading books for strings), published by Trinity College London Press.
Most recently they have published Top Banana (20 performance pieces for beginner string players for violin/viola/cello + piano) and Cool Beans (21 character duets for violin, viola or cellos) with Stainer & Bell.