New music and new stories from The Musical Farm

News | March 13, 2026

by Sarah Bronnert Social Media Services for Scandinavian cello School

As a partner of MERITAcubed, Scandinavian Cello School will explore, as a trainer organization, new ways of supporting musicians beyond traditional performance training and concert activities, with a particular focus on mental health and wellbeing. The Musical Farm in Stevns, Denmark, has become a living example of this approach, where artistic excellence grows alongside community life, sustainability, and a strong awareness of musicians’ mental wellbeing. Scandinavian Cello School shares two new ways to experience this unique environment through music and film.

This March, Scandinavian Cello School is sharing two new ways into the world of The Musical Farm in Stevns, Denmark. On 13 March, the SCS Cello Ensemble releases Hymne à l’amour by Édith Piaf. A day later, on 14 March, the feature documentary Where Music Grows has its world premiere at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. A second festival screening follows on 17 March at Gloria Biograf, accompanied by a Q&A with director Katrine Philp. The film will also screen again at a sold out event on 21 March at SMK.

For those new to Scandinavian Cello School, these releases offer a vivid introduction to a place that has developed a distinctive model of musical life. Located on The Musical Farm, a self-sufficient micro-farm near the UNESCO World Heritage Site Stevns Klint, the school welcomes more than 50 young musicians from around the world each year. Its work brings together elite musical mentoring with sustainability, personal development, community engagement, and a strong focus on mental health and work-life balance. The Musical Farm was thrown into the spotlight in 2021 when a story originating in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/arts/music/cow-concert-scandinavian-cello-school.html) about the musicians performing to a local herd of cows reached 2.1 Billion people globally.

What makes life at The Musical Farm so distinctive is that music does not sit apart from daily life. As both the school and the film describe it, the rhythm of the place moves between lessons and rehearsals, farming, cooking, caring for animals, and gathering for shared meals and community events. At the farm, students are not only refining their artistry, but learning how artistic excellence can exist alongside collaboration, responsibility, and a close relationship with place.

That way of living has become central to Scandinavian Cello School’s identity. The school’s ongoing The Musical Farm video series documents this daily rhythm, while its wider work in Stevns includes outreach concerts in harbours, farms, libraries, schools, and historical venues. Through these local partnerships and it’s growing online presence SCS continues to show how high-level chamber music training can also be rooted in cultural heritage, sustainability, and community life.

The new single and the documentary each capture a different side of that story. Hymne à l’amour offers a musical snapshot from the SCS community, while Where Music Grows opens a wider window onto the values, routines, and relationships that shape life on the farm. Together, they show a model of music education that is both ambitious and deeply human.

For those who want to explore more you can watch a snippet from the film here: https://youtu.be/owHRDVwOdn4

And listen to the single here: https://lnk.to/hymnealamour