Matt Haimovitz

Matt Haimovitz (born December 3, 1970 in Bat Yam , Israel ) is a cellist , classical composer, university lecturer and music producer who now lives in the USA and Montreal , Canada . He mainly plays a cello by Matteo Goffriller from 1710.

Origin, family and early years

Haimowitz's parents, Meir and Marlena Haimowitz, came to Israel from Romania , where Matt Haimovitz was born. When he was five, the family immigrated to Palo Alto , California , USA .

From the age of seven Haimovitz received cello lessons from Irene Sharp in California and two years later from Gábor Rejto . When Haimovitz was twelve years old, Itzhak Perlman discovered him during a music camp in Santa Barbara and put him in contact with Leonard Rose . In 1983, his family moved to New York to continue his studies with Rose at the Juilliard School .

In February 1985, Haimovitz gave a concert with Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra , which was recorded in sound and video and broadcast on Israeli television and is viewed as a career breakthrough. In 1986 an American tour with Mehta and the orchestra as well as concerts with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra followed . As a result, Haimovitz performed with a large number of well-known orchestras and conductors around the world. In 1987 Haimovitz signed an exclusive contract with the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft , which resulted in a number of noteworthy recordings, also outside the standard repertoire.

Haimovitz is married to the composer Luna Pearl Woolf , the couple have two daughters.

Further career

After completing his BA degree from Harvard College in 1996 magna cum laude and the end of his contract with Deutsche Grammophon, Haimovitz increasingly turned to works and performance forms that did not fall within the usual standards of classical musicians. A tour in 2002 attracted considerable attention, during which Haimovitz performed, among other things, Johann Sebastian Bach's cello suites in nightclubs , restaurants and other locations in a large number of large and small cities in the United States that are extremely unusual for this type of music. This was followed by his Anthem tour in 2003 , during which he performed a large number of American compositions in similar locations, including his interpretation of Jimi Hendrix 's famous improvisation on The Star-Spangled Banner . The German cabaret artist Matthias Deutschmann had previously performed such a solo interpretation on the cello. Haimovitz was the very first musician on the classical music scene to give a live concert at the punk music club CBGB in Manhattan. The appearance was recorded by ABC News for their show Nightline UpClose and broadcast on US television.

In 1999, Haimovitz and his wife founded their own record label Oxingale Records in Montreal , where they released their own recordings and those of other artists.

Until 2004, Haimovitz taught at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst , at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal and at the Domaine Forget Academy, near Québec .

Discography

Year of publication	album	Label
1989	Saint-Saens: Cello Concertos / Bruch: Kol Nidrei / Lalo: Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in D Minor	Deutsche Grammophon
1990	Haydn, CPE Bach, Boccherini: Cello Concertos	Deutsche Grammophon
1992	Suites and Sonatas for Solo Cello - Reger: Suite in G major, Op. 131c / 1; Crumb: Sonata; Britten: Suite No. 1, Op. 72; Ligeti: Sonata	Deutsche Grammophon
1995	Trios with Rob Wasserman	GRP records
1995	The 20th Century cello	Deutsche Grammophon
1997	The 20th Century Cello Volume 2	Deutsche Grammophon
1999	Portes Ouvertes: The 20th Century Cello Volume 3	Deutsche Grammophon
1999	Undertree	Oxingale Records
2000	Bach: 6 Suites for Cello Solo	Oxingale Records
2001	Lemons Descending	Oxingale Records
2002	The Rose Album	Oxingale Records
2003	Anthem	Oxingale Records
2003	Haydn: The Cello Concertos; Mozart: Cello Concerto	Transart Live
2003	Hyperstring Trilogy	Oxingale Records
2004	Please Welcome ... Matt Haimovitz	Oxingale Records
2004	Epilogue	Oxingale Records
2005	Goulash!	Oxingale Records
2006	Mozart the Mason	Oxingale Records
2006	Apres Moi, le Deluge	Oxingale Records
2007	David Sanford & the Pittsburgh Collective: Live at the Knitting Factory	Oxingale Records
2007	After Reading Shakespeare	Oxingale Records
2007	Vinyl cello	Oxingale Records
2008	JS Bach Goldberg Variations	Oxingale Records
2008	Odd couple	Oxingale Records
2009	Figment	Oxingale Records
2010	Meeting of the Spirits	Oxingale Records
2011	Shuffle.Play.Listen (together with Christopher O'Riley , piano)	Oxingale Records
2011	Matteo: 300 Years of Italian Cello	Oxingale Records
2012	Paul Moravec: Northern Lights Electric	BMOP / sound
2012	Laura Elise Schwendinger: Three Works	Albany Music Distribution
2013	Glass: Cello Concerto No. 2 " Naqoyqatsi "	Orange Mountain Music
2013	Luna Perl Woolf : Angel Heart - A Music Storybook, based on texts by Cornelia Funke	Oxingale Records
2014	Akoka: Reframing Oliver Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time	Oxingale Records
2015	Beethoven, period. (in cooperation with Christopher O'Riley , piano)	Oxingale Records / Pentatone
2015	orbit	Oxingale Records / Pentatone
2015	JS Bach The Cello Suites According to Anna Magdalena	Oxingale Records / Pentatone
2018	Isang Yun: Cello Concerto, Glissées - "Sunrise Falling"	Oxingale Records / Pentatone

Awards

• 1986: Avery Fisher Career Grant
• 1991: Grand Prix du Disque and Diapason d'or
• 1999: Premio Internazionale of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana
• 2004: Trailblazer Award from the American Music Center for extensive contributions to American music
• 2006: ASCAP Concert Music Award for promoting living composers and his pioneering spirit

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Judy Polan, "Q & A with Matt Haimovitz"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Jewish Ledger , April 22, 2010  
2. ↑ Interview with Matt Haimovitz at Classical Music Broadcast
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Associate Professor Matt Haimovitz Biography ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , McGill University 2009, accessed October 28, 2015 
5. ↑ http://oxingalemusic.com

Web links

• Matt Haimovitz at Oxingale Records
• Matt Haimovitz interview
• Oxingale records
• "Redefining Success, Off the Beaten Track - Cellist Matt Haimovitz, Bringing Bach to the Bar Band Stage" - Richard Scheinin in the "San Jose Mercury News, April 20, 2005
• Discography at Deutsche Grammophon
• BACH & friends, documentary film