February 8, 2010 Virtuoso cellist Matt Haimovitz has made a career of bringing classical music to people who don’t hear it much. In the mid-’90s, having played as soloist with […]
January 25, 2010 Celebrating the 300th birthday of his cello, the concert adventurer Matt Haimovitz returned to Seattle’s Tractor Tavern Wednesday night for a one-man show that sold out the […]
January 20, 2010 Country, hip-hop, metal—cobblers in certain genres pretty much stick to their lasts and aren’t known for exploring music outside their boundaries. (Go ahead, deny it. With counterexamples.) […]
January 19, 2010 The Tractor Tavern’s stage is no stranger to vintage instruments, but for Matt Haimovitz, the notion of a classic ax takes on a decidedly longer perspective. The […]
December 16, 2009 Former Valley resident Matt Haimovitz, who has since departed for Montreal, takes the classical cello to places it’s seldom, maybe never seen. The first track is a […]
December 16, 2009 1. Various artists, “Les Urnes de L’Opera” (EMI Classics) 2. Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica, “Mozart: The Complete Violin
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
