This radical interpretation of David Bowie’s final album, led by Maya Beiser’s cello and backed with full orchestration, seems at first glance to be a dubious concept. It pays tribute to one of this ...
Describing renowned cellist, producer, and multifaceted artist Maya Beiser, The New York Times writes, “The adventurous Ms. Beiser has been called the 'cello goddess,' which is not hyperbole: She ...
Maya Beiser, the reigning queen of the avant-garde cello, has been pushing out the boundaries of her instrument for years, but in a rapturous, high-intensity performance on Saturday night at the Sixth ...
Avant-garde cellist Maya Beiser has presided over some pretty out-there multimedia pieces in the past, a la Laurie Anderson, but Friday evening she presented a relatively staid, music-centered program ...
Beiser gives some of her favorite rock and blues numbers a modern cello workover on her new album, Uncovered. Maya Beiser Shreds The Cello Through the decades, classical cellists have studied the ...
Today (1/8) would’ve been David Bowie‘s 73 birthday, and the anniversary of his passing is in just a few days, on Friday (1/10). On that day, in honor of the late legend, acclaimed cellist Maya Beiser ...
Don't think of a concert by Maya Beiser as a cello recital. Yes, she plays the instrument with fervent panache. But the Israeli-born musician takes the cello well beyond traditional boundaries. Beiser ...
In 2011, during her TED Talk “A Cello With Many Voices,” virtuoso cellist Maya Beiser discussed growing up on a kibbutz in northern Israel and how, as she practiced masterworks by Bach, she would hear ...
Raised by a French mother and Argentinian father, cellist Maya Beiser has memories of listening to vinyl recordings of Jacques Brel and tango as a young girl. She recalls hearing the strains of Arabic ...