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Israelo-American and Canadian cellist and music producer
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West Edge Opera Festival Schedule Change
Oakland Scottish Rite CenterJuly, 2022West Edge Opera has announced that they're delaying their production of Charpentier's David and Jonathan to 2025, swapping in Luna Pearl Woolf and Royce Vavrek's Jacqueline in 2024. The latter will star soprano Marnie Breckenridge and cellist Matt Haimovitz. From the press release:Jacqueline dives into the real-life struggle between celebrity virtuosic cellist Jacqueline du Pré and the multiple sclerosis that ravaged her body, mind, and talent, robbing her of her identity, her breathtaking musical gift, and her life. This intimate piece for soprano and cello brings two contemporary virtuosi to the stage: celebrated soprano Marnie Breckenridge as Jacqueline, and renowned cellist (and former du Pré protégé) Matt Haimovitz as du Pré’s only constant companion, her cello. Inspired by the structure and emotional landscape of Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto, composer Luna Pearl Woolf and Pulitzer Prize winning librettist Royce Vavrek chart the development of great prodigy and ultimately, great tragedy. Jacqueline references Haimovitz’s personal […]
2022-07-09 08:31:30
Growing up with Hildegard: Voice trio on the importance of Hildegard of Bingen's music to them alongside contemporary pieces
[…] repertoire which does not put them in a box, and many festivals are fond of labels. They are pleased that BREMF is happy to programme contemporary music in the mix, she wants to bring something new, to push the boundaries. They also love collaborating and have done a range of projects with the Early music ensemble, the Dufay Collective. They toured the USA with a programme for three voices and cello with the cellist Matt Haimovitz. Roderick Williams has written them a suite of pieces for three voices and cellos which they are performing with Matthew Sharp, setting words by Ursula Vaughan Williams. They originally met Roderick Williams at the Oxford Girls Choir when he sang Aeneas in performances of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas that the choir sang in.Outside Voice, they all have busy careers ranging from motherhood to singing with groups such as Joglaresa and Musica Secreta, as well […]
2022-03-23 19:09:02
First Fourteen of 81 New Pieces Commissioned by THE PRIMAVERA PROJECT in Response to Two Paintings Botticelli’s Primavera & Charline von Heyl’s Primavera 2020 Multi-Grammy nominated cellist Matt Haimovitz’s next recording, PRIMAVERA I the wind, will be released on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series. The new digital album features the first fourteen of 81 new pieces [...]
2021-09-08 08:47:00
'I dig Strauss and Wagner – those cats are good'
[…] in 1970 the barriers between music genres were not as insurmountable as they are today. In a Melody Maker interview that appeared during the Festival, Jimi Hendrix explained "I dig Strauss and Wagner - those cats are good, and I think that they are going to form the background of my music". Alas it was not to be: eighteen days after his Isle of Wight appearance Jimi Hendrix died, apparently of a drug overdose. Cellist Matt Haimovitz perpetuates that link between Jimi Hendrix and classical music by including his own take on Hendrix's legendary version of The Star-Spangled Banner on an eclectic triple album which ranges from Golijov and Ligetti to Lennon and McCartney. In a recent post I proposed that to reach cosmopolitan millennials classical music needs to be far more diverse in the genres it embraces, and Hendrix aspiring to the Western classical tradition and a classical cellist exploring Hendrix […]
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