AboutOfficial Site: http://www.mayabeiser.com/Cellist Maya Beiser has continued to captivate audiences around the globe with her virtuosity, genre-bending style and relentless quest for redefining her instrument's boundaries. Over the last decade she has conceived of and presented major pieces for the cello, written for her by some of the most prominent contemporary composers. Each one of her projects received great critical acclaim and was featured in the foremost concert halls world -wide. Described by the New Yorker Magazine as "The Cello Goddess," and by the San Francisco Chronicle as "The Queen of Contemporary Cello," she has been on the forefront of her field, creating a vast new repertoire for her cello. In recent years she has commissioned, performed and collaborated with Philip Glass, Tan Dun, Steve Reich, Osvaldo Golijov, Brian Eno, Louis Andriessen, and Simon Shaheen, among many others. Maya is currently touring as the feature soloist with the Philip Glass ensemble on a performance of Glass's Naqoyqatsi, with recent concerts at the Sydney Opera House, Lincoln Center in New York, the World Expo in Nagoya - Japan, Barcelona, Paris and San Francisco. Her performance of Steve Reich's "Cello Counterpoint" has been released last fall on a CD chosen by the NY Times as of the top albums of 2005. She is the cello soloist on a Sony Classical CD release of Tan Dun's "Water Passion," and has performed his "Crouching tiger Concerto" with orchestras around the globe including the China Philharmonic and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Oregon Bach Festival, The Utah Symphony, the Eos Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony. Maya Beiser's multimedia concert "World to come" premiered in New York as part of the inaugural season of Carnegie Hall's new venue, Zankel Hall. Other highlights of her 2005 "World To Come" tour included performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Krannert Center in Illinois, UCLA's Royce Hall, the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, and international festivals in Australia, England, Holland and Italy. Raised on a Kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentinean father, Maya Beiser is a graduate of Yale University. Her major teachers were Aldo Parisot, Uzi Wiesel, Alexander Schneider and Isaac Stern. |
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