Podcast appearances and mentions of Amit Peled

Who doesn't love the cello? But, where and when was it invented, and how did it evolve over the centuries? Amit Peled, cello soloist and professor at Peabody, tells us everything and performs music by Bach and Bloch!Support Classical Breakdown: https://weta.org/donatefmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, it's Midday on Music.  A little later we'll hear from the ‘cellist Amit Peled and his Mt. Vernon Virtuosi ‘Cello Gang. But we begin with the composer and flutist Allison Loggins Hull.                                                     This Sunday afternoon, the celebrated singer-songwriter Toshi Reagon will team-up with the contemporary music ensemble Alarm Will Sound to present the world premiere of a new song cycle by Toshi Reagon and Allison Loggins-Hull. It's called Love Always.  It's inspired by the African American tradition of elders writing letters to their children. In addition to composing, Allison Loggins Hull is also an accomplished flute player. She and the flutist and composer Natalie Joachim perform together in a duet called Flutronix. Here's a sample of their work, from the album City of Breath. The tune is called FlockAllison Loggins Hull joins us on Zoom from Montclair, New Jersey. Love Always is receiving its premiere at the University of MD's Clarice Center in College Park. The concert starts at 3:00. It features Toshi Reagon and Alarm Will Sound. Follow the link for more details.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Midday on Music continues now in the studio of our sister station, WTMD in Towson, where we are fortunate to be joined by members of the Mount Vernon Virtuosi Cello Gang. The founder of the Virtuosi is Amit Peled, an internationally acclaimed ‘cellist and conductor and, for the past two decades, a professor at Hopkins' Peabody Institute conservatory. Peled founded the Mount Vernon Virtuosi five years ago to provide professional opportunities for young musicians, and to bring music to people young and old throughout the Baltimore-Washington area, in venues that are not restricted to just concert halls. The Mount Vernon Virtuosi Cello Gang is a rotating ensemble composed of Peled and five of his gifted Peabody student cellists who frequently tour the country. The Gang currently includes Shawn Hsu, Paul Lee, Rachel Taylor, Natalia Vilchis and Jiaoyang Xu. For today's Midday mini-concert, the group performs three distinctive works beautifully arranged for six cellos: Georg Golterman's Serenade, Op.119, No. 2; Sergei Rachmaninoff's Vocalise; and a Brett Howland medley arrangement of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and George David Weiss's What a Wonderful World. You can find video of today's performances by the Mount Vernon Virtuosi ‘Cello Gang on the WYPR YouTube page. Amit Peled and his Cello Gang's performance today previews their concerts in Montgomery County, Maryland, this weekend. They'll be playing on Saturday, December 10 at 4pm at the Spencerville Church in Silver Spring.On Sunday, December 11, they will play two shows at the Bender Jewish Community Center in Rockville, at 2:00 and 4:00pm. Click the links for more details.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Super excited to announce new guest, Christopher Shih, to The Story!Physician and pianist Christopher Shih has a remarkable dual career as both full-time practicing physician and actively concertizing pianist. Hailed by the New York Times as "an intelligent and thoughtful musician," with "effortless performances" and "consummate control," he has performed in major venues worldwide and has soloed with numerous orchestras, including repeated engagements with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington DC. His performance with the National Symphony on the Capitol Lawn for an audience of 50,000 prompted the Washington Post to declare, "If Shih is as gifted in medicine as he is in music, he has some serious career decisions to make. His performance was fluent, gracious, miraculously light, and a joy to the ear." Other orchestral engagements include the Georgetown, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, New England Conservatory, Harvard-Radcliffe, Newton, Lancaster, and Paris Garde Republicaine symphony orchestras.Christopher is the winner of the sixth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs in Fort Worth, Texas. He was also a press and audience favorite at the professional tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram raved, "He demonstrated a magical touch in voicing and a fine Chopinesque rubato...a total sense of style across three centuries. For Shih, technical control supports impeccable musicianship." Christopher is also the grand prize winner of the amateur competitions in Paris, Boston, and Washington DC. His playing and interviews have been featured in television and radio programs worldwide, including NPR's All Things Considered, APM's Performance Today, WGBH's Inner Voice, WQXR, WETA, WGMS, WBJC, Radio France, Radio Classique, Canadian CBC, Taiwan CTV, and Pianist Magazine.Christopher is currently a board-certified gastroenterologist with U.S. Digestive Health in Lancaster, PA. He received his B.A. cum laude from Harvard University and his M.D. from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He did his internal medicine residency training at the University of Pennsylvania and his gastroenterology fellowship training at Johns Hopkins. He is also active in community and charitable services, formerly sat on the GI board exam committee of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and is a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology. An avid chamber musician, he regularly performs with world-class artists, ensembles, and principals of major orchestras across the nation. In recent seasons he has appeared with violinists Nurit Bar-Josef, Alexander Kerr, David Kim, Elizabeth Pitcairn, Michael Shih, and Scott Yoo; cellists Narek Hakhnazaryan and Amit Peled; clarinetist Anthony McGill; pianist Jon Kimura Parker; the American, Daedalus, Dover, Escher, Miró, Pacifica, and Ying Quartets; and the string quintet Sybarite5. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Chamber Music America.Be sure to check out Christopher and his projects here:https://www.christophershih.com/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-story/donations

Cellist Amit Peled carries on the formidable legacy of the great Pablo Casals, both as the custodian of Casals' own cello and through his long-running project of recreating Casals' concerts. In his latest album, Peled and pianist Noreen Polera take on the two cello sonatas of Johannes Brahms – who also had a connection to Casals.

Grammy-nominated cellist, conductor, and pedagogue Amit Peled joins us to talk about his first recording with the Peabody Peled Cello Gang, composed of students from his studio at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

Since 2012, Israeli-born cellist Amit Peled has famously played the 1733 Matteo Goffriller cello formerly owned by the great cellist Pablo Casals. For the first time, Peled has recorded the solo cello suites of Johann Sebastian Bach, which were made world-famous in the 1930s through Casals' recording of them, with that same instrument. Amit joins us to discuss the disc and Casals' legacy with these suites.

Amit Peled — Solus Et Una (CTM Classics) Jump to giveaway form New Classical Tracks - Amit Peled by “The instrument I'm using for this recording helped me to feel more intune with myself because it's a cello that I received during the pandemic. It's a Grancino that was made in 1695,” Israeli-born cellist Amit Peled said. “Just before the pandemic, I had to return Pablo Casals' cello, which I used before. The moment I touched this cello, I felt it. I'm basking in an imaginary hot chocolate bath. I'm not kidding.” Peled calls his new cello, ‘Shoko.' In Hebrew it means, hot chocolate. It brings out a special sense of warmth and comfort in the music on his latest recording, Solus Et Una. “Solus Et Una means alone and together, which basically describes my time during the pandemic,” continued Peled. “I was artistically alone at first and throughout the middle. Towards the end of it I found ways to make music together with others. “We found in the bubble situation we were basically isolating ourselves as a group in the mountains of Montana. This was a place where we could be mask less with no vaccination and do nothing but just walk and make music the way we used to. The nature and the ability to make music together again was a transformative revelation for all of us. Of course, this was inspired by the NBA bubble. My love for basketball showed me the light.” How did this arrangement of Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 3, II. Andante happen? “I did what I usually do when I want to get inspiration. I stop thinking and I went for a walk. This Brahms symphony came to my mind while I was walking, which I love. I am also a conductor, and he is my favorite composer. I started hearing it in my mind. When I got back from the walk, I put it on Spotify. When I got to this movement, I could totally hear the cello sound. “I have a conductor friend who arranges music, and he has a friend, who is on the album, that also does arrangements. He lives in Serbia. I contacted him and he sent me back the arrangement. He said it was easy. It's fit for eight cellos and piano. When we got to Montana, we rehearsed it every single day making changes to make it sound as close as possible to the symphony.” Can you talk about Bach's Cello Suite No.4? “I had so much time to just play that suite. I said to myself, ‘Ok, stop judging yourself, just play.' I played it every day until I fell in love with it. I played it as a song of love. “I remember reading an interview with Yo-Yo Ma, where he said on his 60th birthday, ‘All I want now is to play and feel again like when I was a child and played the cello without any judgment.' I never understood what he meant until the pandemic. You play, think and practice to your standard. But in a way, you must let go and do it. When we were kids, we play as if we were outside with friends. That's how I want to play the cello now.” To hear the rest of my conversation, click on the extended interview above, or download the extended podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch now Giveaway Giveaway You must be 13 or older to submit any information to American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio. The personally identifying information you provide will not be sold, shared, or used for purposes other than to communicate with you about things like our programs, products and services. See Terms of Use and Privacy. This giveaway is subject to the Official Giveaway Rules. Resources Amit Peled — Solus Et Una (Amazon) Amit Peled (official site)

What do NBA basketball and cello choir have in common? Cellist and basketball enthusiast Amit Peled shares the educational and professional benefits of playing in an ensemble where all members play the same instrument, as demonstrated in his Mount Vernon Virtuosi CelloGang.   Check out thestrad.com for the latest news and articles on all things to do with string playing. Register and subscribe to access exclusive archival content from 2010 onwards. Student discount! Get 50% off an online subscription! Check it out here: https://bit.ly/3eQ75AB  Find us on social media: Facebook.com/thestrad Twitter: @TheStradMag Instagram: @the_strad_   Johannes Brahms: Symphony no.3 II Andante Arranged for eight cellos and piano by Konstantin Blagojevic Amit Peled and the Mount Vernon Virtuosi CelloGang Solus et Una CTM Classics   Photo credit: Philip Bermingham

They’re baaaaack….live concerts, that is. The great ‘cellist Amit Peled — heard in the opening of this segment playing Ennio Morricone's Love Theme from his score for Cinema Paradiso — is the founder and music director of a chamber orchestra called the Mount Vernon Virtuosi. A week from tomorrow, he will conduct the group and play as a soloist in a concert that marks the return to live events for the Candlelight Concert Society in Columbia. The 2pm concert will be held outdoors, at the Chrysallis in Merriweather Park's Symphony Woods, in Columbia, Maryland. Some COVID protocols will be in place: you'll have to wear your mask, you can’t bring your dog, and you have to sit with folks in your pod. But after more than a year of hearing concerts on Zoom, music lovers are delighted that in-person concerts are slowly making their way back to area stages. For ticket and location info, click here. Amit Peled joins us today on Zoom, just for this interview… Music heard on today's program (Amit Peled, soloist): Ennio Morricone: Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso(Amit Peled soloist, with the Asheville Symphony Orchestra, Darko Boutorac, conducting.) J.S. Bach: Cello Suite No.1 in G Major: Sarabande Johannes Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major: Allegro Vivace See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

J'ai eu le très grand plaisir d'interviewer Noémie Bialobroda, membre du Quatuor Aviv, composé de Sergey Ostrovsky et Philippe Villanfranca au violon, de Noémie Bialobroda à l'alto et de Daniel Mitnitsky au violoncelle. Ils viennent de faire paraitre pour le label Naxos un disque consacré à Schubert, son trio et son quintette à cordes aux côtés de Amit Peled au violoncelle. Noémie Bialobroda parle quatuor, enseignement et filiation dans la musique de chambre. -- Générique de l'émission : Concert pour violon, piano et quatuor à cordes en ré majeur op. 21 (Sicilienne) de Ernest Chausson Par Itzhak Perlman, Jorge Bolet et le Juilliard String Quartet

This week's interview subject is Gabriel Hightower. Gabriel started playing the cello at the age of nine. He studied with Dr. Ben Myers at Howard Community College. He was invited to attend the Sphinx Performance Academy at Northwestern University where he worked on cello performance with Dr. Mary Ann Ramos and chamber performance with Karlos Rodriguez of the Catalyst Quartet. He has played in master classes led by Amit Peled, Norman Fischer, and The Harlem String Quartet. Mr. Hightower is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park and studied cello performance with Dr. Eric Kutz. He is currently in his second year of grad school at Carnegie Mellon University where he studies with Anne Martindale Williams.

Divaguemos un poco acerca de la enseñanza musical familiar, la actividad y formación musical en el norte de México, por qué tocar violoncello, salir o no del país para seguir desarrollándose, la pedagogía de Amit Peled, cómo entender la técnica y utilizarla como herramienta para superar la falta de confianza, sentir que no estás hech@ para algo hasta que la vida te demuestra lo contrario, la experiencia de estudiar una maestría en el extranjero, la satisfacción de hacer música con otras personas, la importancia de traer de regreso a tu país todo el aprendizaje adquirido, los sueños de mejorar y ampliar las oportunidades musicales en México, los efectos de tocar y escuchar música clásica, la valentía de hacer tu propia versión de cualquier pieza, romper las reglas o no, entre muchas otras cosas.

Divaguemos un poco acerca de las escuelas de música en Cuba, las aventuras para entrar al conservatorio de Peabody en Baltimore, aprender inglés con prisas, ser alumno del violonchelista Amit Peled, la Peabody Cello Gang y las primeras experiencias estando de gira con todo lo que eso implica, primeras vivencias en México, el ego, el descanso, la competencia, la música como refugio, música cubana y jazz, entre muchas otras cosas.

Israeli-American cellist, conductor, and teacher Amit Peled first test-drove the cello at age 10. "I grew up in a rural kibbutz in Israel, and when I was in 4th grade, we were asked what instrument we would like to play. I picked the cello, because of a girl I wanted to get to know." At that time, Peled, who stands 6'5", was more interested in basketball than music. But by age 17, the two passions had swapped places, and his musical engine was firing on all cylinders.

Cello soloist and professor, Amit Peled, shares stories of his life in music.  From his early beginnings traveling to lessons, to the  unique scenario that brought him to Pablo Casals' cello, his journey is full of love, energy, and passion.  

The great 20th century cellist, Pablo Casals, was the first in the world to record all six of Bach’s suites for unaccompanied cello.  This was in 1939.  Before this, people only considered the suites as study pieces.  Casals proved them wrong, and now the suites are among the most beloved works for the instrument of all time.   Amit Peled, an Israeli-born former basketball player (he’s 6’ 5”), now a Peabody professor who happened upon an opportunity only granted a handful of cellists:  Casals’ widow (Marta Casals Istomin) entrusted Peled with this instrument, for six years.  Peled’s recording is the first, since Casals, performing all six suites on the very instrument that brought this music to the world.

Israeli-American cellist Amit Peled is acclaimed worldwide as one of the most exciting and virtuosic instrumentalists on the concert stage today. He's on the faculty of the Peabody Institute, and tours the world playing concerts and recitals. His recording of the Bach Cello Suites is on CTM Classics.

Since 2012, Israeli-born cellist Amit Peled has famously played the 1733 Matteo Goffriller cello formerly owned by the great cellist Pablo Casals. For the first time, Peled has recorded the solo cello suites of Johann Sebastian Bach, which were made world-famous in the 1930s through Casals' recording of them, with that same instrument. Amit joins us to discuss the disc and Casals' legacy with these suites.

Since 2012, Israeli-born cellist Amit Peled has famously played the 1733 Matteo Goffriller cello formerly owned by the great cellist Pablo Casals. For the first time, Peled has recorded the solo cello suites of Johann Sebastian Bach, which were made world-famous in the 1930s through Casals' recording of them, with that same instrument. Amit joins us to discuss the disc and Casals' legacy with these suites.

Israeli-American cellist Amit Peled’s latest album, “Bach Suites Volume 1” is slated for release on February 1 on the CTM Classics imprint. Recorded on a Goffriller cello from the year 1733 formerly owned by legendary virtuoso Pablo Casals, the album features Bach’s first three suites. The album marks the first time that Bach’s Suites have been recorded on the instrument since Casals’ own path-breaking venture in 1936. “Casals had nothing in his ear as a model when he began recording the Suites," Peled said. "When I started, I had his recording, of course, plus those of 50 other great cellists.” Join us for a special in-studio performance of Bach’s cello suites from Amit Peleed.

In the latest episode of Classical Kids Storytime, cellist Amit Peled tells the enchanting tale of how he came to play a 300-year-old cello once favored by legendary performer Pablo Casals.

Dedication and hard work really can make childhood dreams come true. We meet international musician Amit Peled. He plays the cello once owned by Pablo Casals, the renowned musician who inspired him as a boy. The book, “A Cello Named Pablo,” tells the story, urging children to pursue their dreams. Then we visit Peled at his studio to learn what it’s like to teach and study at the world famous Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute.

Cellist Amit Peled carries on the formidable legacy of the great Pablo Casals, both as the custodian of Casals' own cello and through his long-running project of recreating Casals' concerts. In his latest album, Peled and pianist Noreen Polera take on the two cello sonatas of Johannes Brahms – who also had a connection to Casals.

Cellist Amit Peled carries on the formidable legacy of the great Pablo Casals, both as the custodian of Casals' own cello and through his long-running project of recreating Casals' concerts. In his latest album, Peled and pianist Noreen Polera take on the two cello sonatas of Johannes Brahms – who also had a connection to Casals.

Ever walk by the venerable Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore's Mt. Vernon neighborhood and wonder what exactly goes on inside? Renowned cellist and instructor Amit Peled reveals secrets of his technique. Turns out, there's plenty of blood, sweat and tears behind those tunes.

interview in studio and behind scenes at Peabody conservatory studio.

Grammy-nominated cellist, conductor, and pedagogue Amit Peled joins us to talk about his first recording with the Peabody Peled Cello Gang, composed of students from his studio at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

Cellist Amit Peled may have begun his career as a basketball player, but now brings his "larger than life" performances to concert halls around the world. The 6'5 cellist visits the WDAV studio and brings with him the personal concert cello of Pablo Casals, the legendary Spanish Catalan cellist and conductor.  Peled speaks with host Frank Dominguez and previews his upcoming performance for the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art's Music and Museum series.

Amit Peled was raised on an Israeli kibbutz listening to cassette tapes of the great Spanish cellist Pablo Casals. He went on to become a prominent cellist in his own right and was recently selected to play Pablo Casals' cello.

WPAS speaks with cellist Amit Peled about his January 23 Kennedy Center program, which includes Beethoven's Cello Sonata No. 3, Schumann's Fantasiestucke, Op. 73, Britten's Suite for Solo Cello and more. Tickets at WPAS.org or 202-785-WPAS.