Maya Beiser Explained

Maya Beiser (born 31 December 1963) is an American musician, cellist, performing artist and producer who lives in New York City. Beiser was raised on a kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentine father, and graduated from Yale University School of Music. She has been described by the Boston Globe as "a force of nature",[1] "a cello goddess" by The New Yorker [2] and "the reigning queen of the avant-garde cello"[3] by The Washington Post. Beiser is a 2015 United States Artists Distinguished Music Fellow[4] and the Inaugural Mellon Distinguished Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology.[5]

Biography

Maya Beiser was born 31 December 1963 in Gazit, a kibbutz in Israel.[6] Her mother was French, her father Argentinian.[7] As a child, she played the piano before switching to the cello. At age twelve, she was discovered by the violinist Isaac Stern and embarked on a solo career. Beiser graduated from Yale University School of Music in 1987. She collaborated with composers Louis Andriessen, Steve Reich, David Lang, Tan Dun, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Osvaldo Golijov, Michael Gordon, Michael Harrison, Julia Wolfe, Mark Anthony Turnage, visual artists Shirin Neshat, and Bill Morrison, dancer Wendy Whelan and choreographer Lucinda Childs. Beiser was a speaker at the 2011 TED conference in Long Beach California. Her TEDtalk performance has been watched by over a million people and translated to 34 languages.

Beiser has conceived, performed and produced three multimedia concerts for Carnegie Hall: World To Come;[8] Almost Human[9] , a collaboration with visual artist Shirin Neshat and composer Eve Beglarian ; and Provenance,[10] which forms the basis of her album of that name. Her production, Elsewhere: a CelloOpera, which premiered at Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2012, is an imaginative retelling of the Biblical legend of Lot's wife, created with theater director Robert Woodruff, with original text by Erin Cressida Wilson and music by Missy Mazzoli. All Vows, a show that reimagines rock classics such as Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog" and Nirvana's "Lithium",[11] premiered at the San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2014[12] and was presented at BAM Next Wave Festival in 2015.[13] In July 2017, she performed a reimagining of David Bowie's album "Blackstar", arranged for her by the composer Evan Ziporyn with the Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra and Ziporyn conducting.[14] In August 2018, Beiser premiered Mark Anthony Turnage cello concerto "Maya" at The Proms in London's Royal Albert Hall.[15]

Maya Beiser's discography includes fourteen solo albums, multiple studio recordings and film music collaborations. She has collaborated with film composer James Newton Howard and is the featured soloist on several films' soundtracks including The Happening, The Great Debaters, Blood Diamond, Snow White and the Huntsman and After Earth.

Beiser was one of the founding members of the Bang on a Can All Stars.

Projects

Discography

Other contributions

Filmography

Beiser contributed to the soundtrack of several films:

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Otherworldly 'Labyrinth' of sound, vision at Gardner Museum – The Boston Globe. BostonGlobe.com. 2018-02-20.
  2. Web site: Maya Beiser: Making classical music sexy and smart. Burton-Hill. Clemency. en. 2018-02-20.
  3. News: Avant-garde cellist Maya Beiser's daring hits full throttle. Brookes. Stephen. 2014-11-09. The Washington Post. 2018-02-20. en-US. 0190-8286.
  4. News: Maya Beiser. United States Artists. 2018-02-20. en-US.
  5. News: Maya Beiser – Arts at MIT. Arts at MIT. 2018-02-20. en-US.
  6. Web site: Maya Beiser Biography & History . Robert . Cummings . . 20 December 2018.
  7. Web site: Maya Beiser: 'I think I was born a nonconformist' . Fiona . Maddocks . . 29 January 2017 . 20 December 2018.
  8. News: MUSIC REVIEW; An Evening's Adventure, With a Cellist and Her Voice. Tommasini. Anthony. 2003-11-01. The New York Times. 2018-02-20. en-US. 0362-4331.
  9. News: An Artistic Trek Across a Surreal Land of Sand and Self-Discovery. Shattuck. Kathryn. 2006-03-09. The New York Times. 2018-02-20. en-US. 0362-4331.
  10. News: Maya Beiser Returns The Cello To The Middle East. NPR.org. 2018-02-20. en.
  11. News: Maya Beiser review: Cellist casts a rockin' spell. San Francisco Chronicle. 2018-02-20.
  12. Web site: Maya Beiser: All Vows Visit Yerba Buena. visityerbabuena.org. en-US. 2018-02-20.
  13. Web site: All Vows. BAM.org. en. 2018-02-20.
  14. Web site: Bowie Symphonic €" Blackstar in concert . Barcelona News.
  15. Israeli cellist plays her first prom . The JC .
  16. News: Review: Cellist Maya Beiser and dancer Wendy Whelan in a 9/11 work like no other .
  17. Web site: Spinning .
  18. Web site: Maya Beiser plays Films for Cello .
  19. News: Musicians revealed in 'Uncovered' - The Boston Globe. BostonGlobe.com. 2018-02-23.
  20. News: Avant-garde cellist Maya Beiser's daring hits full throttle . The Washington Post.
  21. Web site: Elsewhere . BAM . 2014-08-19.
  22. Web site: Provenance . Maya Beiser . 2014-08-19.
  23. Web site: Maya Beiser – Free listening, videos, concerts, stats and pictures at . Last.fm . 2014-08-19.
  24. Web site: Provenance – Maya Beiser Songs, Reviews, Credits AllMusic. AllMusic. 2018-02-20.
  25. Web site: TranceClassical – Maya Beiser Songs, Reviews, Credits AllMusic. AllMusic. 2018-02-20.
  26. The Day liner notes, Cantaloupe Music CA21135
  27. Web site: the day, by Maya Beiser & David Lang. David Lang. 2018-02-20.
  28. Maya Beiser: Amplifying the Heart of a Fragile Planet .
  29. News: 'Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar' by Maya Beiser Review: Tribute to a Rock Icon The cellist reworks and expands David Bowie's final album. .
  30. News: Maddocks . Fiona . 2021-07-17 . Classical home listening: Nino Rota, Philip Glass and Stravinsky . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-05-24 . 0261-3077.
  31. Web site: Maya Beiser | Infinite Bach Chapter 1 - Cello Suite No 4 in Eb major, Prélude .
  32. News: 'Cellist Maya Beiser releases on Islandia Music Records a version of Terry Riley's "In C" for solo cello. .
  33. Web site: Recordings — CanLand - the Bang on a Can Archives.
  34. Web site: Cheating Lying Stealing.
  35. News: Dan Goldwasser . James Newton Howard scores * M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening . ScoringSessions.com . 2008-03-15 . 2008-03-15.
  36. 2-CD original soundtrack album, Indigo Film IND009

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