Boston Herald: Best of 2009: Music
December 16, 2009 1. Various artists, “Les Urnes de L’Opera” (EMI Classics) 2. Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica, “Mozart: The Complete Violin
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All Music Guide: Figments of Imagination: An Interview with Cellist Matt Haimovitz and Composer Du Yun
November 27, 2009 In a career spanning 25 years, cellist Matt Haimovitz has grown from a winsome lad of 13, making his debut with Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic, […]
Montreal Gazette: What’s On Your iPod?
November 12, 2009 Crossover poster boy and McGill University prof, Matt Haimovitz will happily clamp a mike on his 1710 Gofriller cello and play it in clubs that don’t normally […]
Voir: Matt Haimovitz et Luna Pearl Woolf Classiques eXcentriques
November 5, 2009 Le violoncelliste Matt Haimovitz et sa partenaire, la compositrice Luna Pearl Woolf, réinventent le rituel du concert avec la nouvelle vocation d’eXcentris. Air frais. J’ai rencontré Matt […]
Montreal Mirror: Wine bottles, wedding bells and warrior women
November 5, 2009 The exciting eccentricities of November’s classical music programming at eXcentris McGill music professor and renowned cellist Matt Haimovitz—who now adds artistic advisor and artist-in-residence at the recently […]
Chicago Tribune: Matt Haimovitz turns classical cello into a switched-on lounge act
October 29, 2009 How about a little Elliott Carter as you sip your drink and nibble pretzels in a dimly-lit lounge? Don’t scoff. That’s the kind of ear-liberating musical experience […]
Star Tribune: Psst: Avant-cello act at the Dakota
October 27, 2009 Matt Haimovitz is loose in Minneapolis again. The thirtysomething avant-cellist, equally at ease in clubs and concert halls, was last here in January of ’08 for performances […]
Time Out Chicago: Figment – CD Review
October 16, 2009 In the ’80s, a teenage Matt Haimovitz studied at Juilliard under the tutelage of Leonard Rose. In 2002, the Israeli-born cellist booked the first classical gig at […]
The New York Times: You Won’t Find Them in the 45s Section
October 15, 2009 In the world of commercial music, the conventional wisdom is that the full-length album is dead, that listeners want individual tracks, downloaded rather than on discs. But […]
Philadelphia City Paper: Music Picks: Matt Haimovitz
October 14, 2009 A conservatory-trained cellist, Haimovitz has also been known to saw the night away for beer-soaked audiences at the Tin Angel and CBGB. He still plays Bach and […]
New York Time Out: Opera & Classical – Matt Haimovitz with Du Yun
October 11, 2009 An inventive cellist with an insatiable curiosity, Matt Haimovitz was playing Bach in nightclubs before (Le) Poisson Rouge was a glimmer in anyone’s eye; no wonder he’s […]
Santa Barbara News-Press: IN CONCERT : Have cello will travel, to clubland
October 2, 2009 In addition to being a highly regarded member of the classical music universe, cellist Matt Haimovitz has made a name for himself by embracing a more street […]
New York Times: Young Musicians Play Bedtime Stories
July 6, 2009 The Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, a youth ensemble from California, is on an East Coast tour that brought it to Alice Tully Hall on Tuesday evening. As […]
The Boston Globe: Haimovitz’s productive tension
June 26, 2009 Cellist is free-spirited about mixing classical, modern There’s a sort of paradox in the artistic spirit of cellist Matt Haimovitz. He is best known as a prodigy-turned-apostate. […]
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