Imagining a solo cello concert, one would most likely think of Johann Sebastian Bach unaccompanied cello suites.

Maya Beiser and her cello

Caroline Lavelle casts a spell on cello

and I said I'm playing the cello and I'm doing a bit of singing, and he said, Oh, I sort of play the cello as well.

I want to create endless possibilities with this cello.

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Ahn Trio A modern take on piano, violin, cello

My cello and my voice are layered to create this large sonic canvas.

When composers write music for me, I ask them to forget what they know about the cello.

And just like the vibrating strings that you just saw in a cello can vibrate in different patterns, these can also vibrate in different patterns.

And just by changing the interpretation and the feeling, I can turn my cello into a voice, or into a whole orchestra, or into something that nobody has ever heard before.

Caroline Lavelle plays the cello like a sorceress casting a spell, occasionally hiding behind her wild mane of blond hair as she sings of pastoral themes. She performs Farther than the Sun, backed by Thomas Dolby on keyboards.

If I were here playing cello, or playing on a synth, or sharing my music with you, I'd be able to show things about myself that I can't tell you in words, more personal things, perhaps deeper things.

Everything I've shown you so far whether it's a hyper cello for Yo Yo Ma or squeezy toy for a child the instruments stayed the same and are valuable for a certain class of person a virtuoso, a child.

Cellist Maya Beiser plays a gorgeous eight part modern etude with seven copies of herself, and segues into a meditative music video hybrid using tech to create endless possibilities for transformative sound. Music is Steve Reich's Cello Counterpoint, with video from Bill Morrison, then David Lang's World to Come, with video by Irit Batsry.

We are missing the story of Fareeda, a music teacher, a piano teacher, in Sarajevo, who made sure that she kept the music school open every single day in the four years of besiege in Sarajevo and walked to that school, despite the snipers shooting at that school and at her, and kept the piano, the violin, the cello playing the whole duration of the war, with students wearing their gloves and hats and coats.