Maya Beiser

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Maya Beiser (born December 31, 1963 in Kibbutz Gazit ) is an American cellist .

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Beiser grew up in Israel as the daughter of a French mother and an Argentine father. She first took piano lessons before switching to the cello at the age of eight. When she was 11 years old, she discovered Isaac Stern who became her mentor. She did her military service as a cellist in the Israeli military string quartet.

In 1985 Beiser migrated to the United States to study at Yale University's music school . Her teachers included Aldo Parisot , Alexander Schneider and Uzi Wiesel . She made her recital debut in New York in 1992. In the same year she was one of the founders of the sextet Bang on a Can All-Stars . But she soon began to pursue a solo career. Her first solo album, Oblivón, with works by Astor Piazolla and Joaquín Nin-Culmell was released in 1999. She has appeared at Lincoln Center , the Brooklyn Academy of Music , the Royal Albert Hall , the Barbican Center , the Sydney Opera House and L'Auditori in Barcelona, ​​in the Paris Cité de la musique and the Stockholm Concert Hall. In 2003 she gave a sold out concert at Carnegie Hall .

Beiser took part in numerous international festivals in Chicago, Boston, New Haven, Paris, Amsterdam, Turin, Milan, Tokyo, Taipei, Athens, Mexico City, Havana, Bogota and Adelaide and performed New Music for Cello with well-known orchestras such as the Detroit Symphony Orchestra , Montreal Symphony Orchestra , BBC Concert Orchestra , Boston Pops Orchestra , Sydney Symphony Orchestra , Seattle Symphony Orchestra , Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, and Barcelona Symphony Orchestra .

Beiser was also successful with multimedia productions such as World to Come , Almost Human , Provenance , Elsewhere: A Cello Opera and All Vow . Her artistic partners include Louis Andriessen , Philip Glass , Tan Dun , Steve Reich , Brian Eno , Mark-Anthony Turnage , Shirin Neshat , Erin Cressida-Wilson , Robert Woodruff , Missy Mazolli , David Lang , Julia Wolfe , Evan Ziporyn , Pontus Lidberg , Wendy Whelan , Lucinda Childs and Joe Hisaishi . As a soloist, she played compositions by James Newton Howard in the soundtracks to M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening and After Earth , Denzel Washington's The Great Debaters , Edward Zwick's Blood Diamond and Rupert Sanders ' Snow White and the Huntsman . Your intake of David Lang's world to come IV was in the soundtrack of Paolo Sorrentino with an Oscar winning movie La Grande Bellezza - The Great Beauty (2013) is used.

Beiser's talk at the 2011 TED conference was accessed more than a million times and translated into 32 languages. In 2015 she became a Distinguished Fellow in Music of the United States Artists and in 2017 a Mellon Distinguished Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology . Of their twelve albums, Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar (2020), delugEON (2019), Tranceclassical (2016), Uncovered (2014) and Provenance (2012) topped the classical music charts.

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SURNAME Beiser, Maya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cellist
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Gazit