MATT and UCCELLO in ISRAEL & “AFTER READING SHAKESPEARE” TOUR EMBRACES WORDS IN SONG
MATT HAIMOVITZ AND UCCELLO HEAD TO THE ISRAEL CELLO FESTIVAL
Matt is taking Uccello, a cello ensemble comprised of some of his top students from the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, to the Israel Cello Festival, 10th Anniversary edition. Matt plays solo on Wednesday April 23 and with the cello ensemble on Thursday April 24. Cello luminaries Janos Starker, Bernard Greenhouse, Laurence Lesser, Ralph Kirshbaum, and many, many others will be in attendance at the cello congress. Uccello, which has performed at Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Boston’s Celebrity Series, and Montréal’s MNM Festival, is the only international cello ensemble to be featured. Matt and Uccello’s tour is made possible by the generous support of the Schulich School of Music at McGill University with additional support from the Grinspoon Foundation, Sorin Group Canada, Inc., and Copap Inc.
Check out Uccello on Goulash! and VinylCello. And also on YouTube
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MATT HAIMOVITZ’S “AFTER READING SHAKESPEARE” TOUR EMBRACES WORDS IN SONG, IN COLLABORATION WITH SOPRANO LISA DELAN AND COMPOSER GORDON GETTY
Two Cabaret Evenings In Los Angeles (May 13) and Montreal (May 19) Feature Music from Haimovitz’s New CD After Reading Shakespeare and New Works by Gordon Getty and Luna Pearl Woolf
Haimovitz will be Featured Soloist in Performances of Ligeti’s Cello Concerto And Stephen Dankner’s Klezmer Fantasy At Disney Hall With Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra On May 10 & 11
On the heels of a Juno nomination and a rave review in the New Yorker, Matt Haimovitz’s “After Reading Shakespeare” project is evolving to embrace words both sung and spoken in a collaboration with soprano Lisa Delan, pianist Kristen Pankonin and composer Gordon Getty. Two literary-themed cabaret evenings at The Mint in Los Angeles and Sala Rossa in Montreal feature music from Haimovitz’s After Reading Shakespeare CD as well as new works for soprano, cello, and piano by composers Gordon Getty and Luna Pearl Woolf.
During the concerts, Mr. Getty will narrate Shakespeare quotations interwoven with Matt’s performance of Ned Rorem’s landmark solo cello suite, After Reading Shakespeare. Delan and Pankonin offer Lewis Spratlan’s Ophélie, a setting of the poem by Rimbaud, “the French Shakespeare,” and Haimovitz will perform Spratlan’s solo cello work Shadow, in which the composer quotes the song Ophélie in a movement titled “Rambo/Rimbaud”.
Specially for this event, Mr. Getty has created a new arrangement of an aria from his opera Plump Jack, on the life of Shakespeare’s Falstaff, which will receive its world premiere. Also receiving a world premiere is Luna Pearl Woolf’s Odas de Todo el Mundo, a work for soprano, cello, and piano commissioned by Delan on the evocative poetry of Pablo Neruda. Delan, Haimovitz and Pankonin recently recorded this work for a forthcoming PentaTone Classics release due in June.
Dates:
Saturday, May 10 at 7:30PM
Matt Haimovitz
Concerto - Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra and Peter Askim
Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild, CA
Sunday, May 11at 7:30 PM
Matt Haimovitz
Concerto - Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra and Peter Askim
REDCAT @ Disney Hall, 111 South Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA
phone: 951-659-2171
Tuesday, May 13 at 7:00 PM
Matt Haimovitz with special guests Lisa Delan, Kristen Pankonin, Gordon Getty
After Reading Shakespeare - cello/soprano/piano/narrator
The Mint, 6010 W. Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90035
phone: 323-954-9400
Monday, May 19 at 8:00 pm
Matt Haimovitz with special guests Lisa Delan, Kristen Pankonin, Gordon Getty
After Reading Shakespeare - cello/soprano/piano/narrator
La Sala Rossa, 4848 boul. St-Laurent, Montreal, QC H2T 1R6
phone: 514-284-0122
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November 6, 2007 VinylCello on both CD and limited edition 12" LP. This album brings together the first three works in Matt’s ‘Buck the Concerto’ series of commissions along with his new arrangement of Hendrix’s Machine Gun for all-cello band.
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