Montreal Gazette: Cellist Matt Haimovitz draws from the past, plays in the present.
November 12, 2015 Matt Haimovitz’s attitude toward his 1710 cello is that “it’s survived 300 years, and if you take good care of it I’m not going to be afraid […]
November 12, 2015 Matt Haimovitz’s attitude toward his 1710 cello is that “it’s survived 300 years, and if you take good care of it I’m not going to be afraid […]
“Israel-born, home in North America, multi-faceted cellist Matt Haimovitz on his new CD Leipzig Baroque with Hawaiian lifestyle. What emerged is a great version of Bach’s cello suites . And a video of the week.”
“For all that we get Haimovitz’s total artistry, a deep resonance to the cello not heard quite like this in standard versions, and an expressivity that is very palpable and rugged at times, without a romantic sort of rubato so much as a baroque one, which is to say that the sort of bravura of the post-Beethoven cello is replaced by a different sort of emotiveness, born of the resonance of the open strings and a restrained vibrato, with the up-down bowing dynamics of the flat bow and the phrasing of Anna’s version suggesting a performance of great clarity and zest. There is a rough-hewn, exuberant beauty to it all. And not a stitch of sentimentality.”
October 05, 2015 In a Strings exclusive, Matt Haimovitz has released a music video from his forthcoming album, The Cello Suites According to Anna Magdalena (Pentatone), of the Prelude from […]
September 14, 2015 SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Artswego Performing Arts Series at SUNY Oswego begins its fall arts programming with cellist Matt Haimovitz performing at four locations on Tuesday and Wednesday. […]
Available Now! Fresh off the heels of his revelatory period-instrument recording of the complete Beethoven Sonatas and Variations with Christopher O’Riley, BEETHOVEN, Period., Haimovitz releases J.S. Bach: The Cello Suites […]
July 9, 2015 Sometimes an artist’s most meaningful projects arise by chance, in everyday interactions, rather than through any grand plan. So, it seems, was the case with the intrepid […]
March 23, 2015 An internationally known cellist lands in Charlotte for one night to play Bach. And the venue he picks is … a coffeehouse? Well, why not? Johann Sebastian […]
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 Matt Haimovitz | photo by Stephanie McKinnon Thursday 19 Matt Haimovitz — Matt Haimovitz — who ranks among the world’s very best cellists — is performing his interpretation […]
Twelve years ago, the cellist Matt Haimovitz played “The Star-Spangled Banner” – Jimi Hendrix’s version – live at CBGB. The story is told in Reinventing Bach. Haimovitz studied with Yo-Yo Ma, enrolled at Harvard, and then dropped out of college and the classical-music recital circuit at once. The gig at CBGB – in October 2002 – was just one gig in a tour of nightclubs, cafes and restaurants in support of a self-financed CD. He played three of Bach’s cello suites, a recent piece by a living composer, and a four-string acoustic reduction of the Hendrix anthem from Woodstock — rendering feedback, string bends, dive-bomb runs, and discordura, and interpolating a few bars of “Taps.” TheWall Street Journal’s critic griped that he couldn’t hear the cello over the clinking bottles.
April 27, 2014 This week we revisit some of Team Triad Arts’ choice recent interviews, and get a musical look at this Earth Day Weekend. Guitarist David English is one […]
It’s been more than a dozen years since Matt Haimovitz first took Bach’s solo cello suites on tour across North America in nontraditional venues. On Saturday, he brought them to Georgetown’s Dumbarton Church, where he presented the six suites — split in two back-to-back performances — in a refreshing old-meets-new light.
September 11, 2013 Simple Measures Cello Divas II (Nov 15 at Town Hall, Nov 17 at Mount Baker Community Club, simplemeasures.org): Matt Haimovitz is the cellist who made his name playing […]