January 11, 2017 He asked contemporary composers to add “overtures” to Bach’s famed cello suites. Cellist Matt Haimovitz earned a reputation as a bit of a maverick in the classical […]
We are thrilled to announce the winner of our inaugural call for scores! Selected from nearly 150 applicants from around the world, Luna Pearl Woolf will write an original score to Samuel Beckett’s mime play […]
November 11, 2016 Cellist Matt Haimovitz has had a long relationship with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Born in Israel, he grew up in Palo Alto California before heading […]
October 13, 2016 Matt Haimovitz, cello – “Overtures to Bach” – composed by PHILIP GLASS, VIJAY IYER, ROBERTO SIERRA, DU YUN, LUNA PEARL WOOLF plus The Six BACH: Cello Suites […]
December 2, 2016 “We’re looking for the event in the crypt,” I announced. “Where is the crypt?” Four alarmed eyeballs stared back at me. It was the second day of […]
November 27, 2016 “There is no Nobel Prize for Music, so this award is significant to me.” As Philip Glass graced the National Arts Centre Stage Saturday night (November 26) […]
November 27, 2016 All photos by Andre Gagne. What is a genius? That question itched me throughout the The 11th Glenn Gould Prize Awards concert “The Genius of Philip Glass” […]
November 27, 2016 At Southam Hall Reviewed Saturday I’ve sometimes tried to imagine the expression that Brahms or Mahler or Prokofiev would have worn when hearing their music played back […]
November 21, 2016 What kind of music would speak to Bach today? Cellist Matt Haimovitz—who has been performing works by Bach in concert halls and clubs for the last three […]
The editors of Apple Music pick the best tracks each week. We’re thrilled that Philip Glass’ Overture from our most recent PENTATONE Oxingale Series release, OVERTURES to Bach is on […]
October 5, 2016 John Pitman’s CD Reviews Matt Haimovitz plays “Overtures to Bach” Cellist Matt Haimovitz, who started his career nearly 30 years ago on the DG label, recording the […]
October 17, 2016 Guest soloist Matt Haimovitz will perform Oct. 29 as one of the featured guests in the opening show of the 77th season of the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra. […]
September 22, 2016 Matt Haimovitz‘s continuously-evolving and intense engagement with the Bach Cello Suites reaches a new zenith with Overtures to Bach, six new commissions that anticipate and reflect each […]
September 28, 2016 Overtures to Bach Matt Haimovitz Pentatone Oxingale Series (PTC 5186 561) The following is an excerpt from Strings Attached (October 2016) which can be read in its entirety […]
October 7, 2016 Cellist Matt Haimovitz brought his Bach cello series to the BYU campus in several pop-up concerts this week with a bigger BRAVO! performance on Thursday, Oct. 6. Haimovitz is […]
October 5, 2016 CHOREOGRAPHER/DANCER DOUG ELKINS considers himself a creative magpie; collecting various appealing things and bringing them back to his nest where he transforms them into something different. “I’m […]
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