Matt Haimovitz
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Matt Haimovitz | |
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Born | December 3, 1970 Bat-Yam, Israel |
Education | Juilliard School, Harvard University |
Occupation | Cellist |
Years active | 1984 - present |
Employer(s) | Oxingale Productions, Inc; McGill University Schulich School of Music; Mannes New School of Music |
Website | https://www.matthaimovitz.com/ |
Matt Haimovitz (born December 3, 1970) is a cellist based in the United States and Canada. Born in Israel, he grew up in the US from the age of five. He plays mainly a cello made by Matteo Goffriller in 1710.
Family, musical education and early career
Matt Haimovitz was born in the Israeli town of Bat Yam as son of Meir and Marlena Haimovitz, a
Haimovitz began to study the cello at the age of seven with
In February 1985, Haimovitz joined
Recent career
After graduating from
In 2000, Haimovitz founded his own record label,
"Shuffle. Play.Listen", his 2-disc collaboration with pianist
From 1999 to 2004, Haimovitz was a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. Since 2004, he has taught at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in Montreal as well as the Domaine Forget academy for the arts in rural Quebec.
In June 2013, Haimovitz went on an international tour to Italy performing with the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra. He also recorded Philip Glass' Cello Concerto No. 2 with Dennis Russell Davies and the Cincinnati Symphony; the concerto is a reworking of the film score ''Naqoyqatsi''.[8]
From 2015 Oxingale and PENTATONE record label have joined forces and formed the PENTATONE Oxingale Series, re-releasing old albums - now also digitally available and distributed worldwide - and producing new ones. In 2015, Haimovitz released two recordings on PENTATONE using period instruments: the cello sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven, with pianist Christopher O'Riley; and a second recording of Bach's cello suites (on Haimovitz's earlier traversal, recorded in 2000, he had used a modernized cello and bow).
Discography
Release date | Album | Label |
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1989 | Saint-Saens: Cello Concertos / Bruch: Kol Nidrei / Lalo: Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in D Minor | Deutsche Grammophon |
1990 | Haydn, C.P.E. Bach, Boccherini: Cello Concertos | Deutsche Grammophon |
1992 | Suites and Sonatas for Solo Cello - Reger: Suite in G major, Op. 131c/1; Crumb: Sonata; Britten: Suite No. 1, Op. 72; Ligeti: Sonata | Deutsche Grammophon |
1995 | Trios with Rob Wasserman | GRP Records |
1995 | The 20th Century Cello | Deutsche Grammophon |
1997 | The 20th Century Cello Volume 2 | Deutsche Grammophon |
1999 | Portes Ouvertes: The 20th Century Cello Volume 3 | Deutsche Grammophon |
1999 | Undertree | Oxingale Records |
2000 | Bach: 6 Suites for Cello Solo | Oxingale Records |
2001 | Lemons Descending | Oxingale Records |
2002 | The Rose Album | Oxingale Records |
2003 | Anthem | Oxingale Records |
2003 | Haydn: The Cello Concertos; Mozart: Cello Concerto | Transart Live |
2003 | Hyperstring Trilogy | Oxingale Records |
2004 | Please Welcome...Matt Haimovitz | Oxingale Records |
2004 | Epilogue | Oxingale Records |
2005 | Goulash! | Oxingale Records |
2006 | Mozart the Mason | Oxingale Records |
2006 | Apres Moi, le Deluge | Oxingale Records |
2007 | David Sanford & the Pittsburgh Collective: Live at the Knitting Factory | Oxingale Records |
2007 | After Reading Shakespeare | Oxingale Records |
2007 | VinylCello | Oxingale Records |
2008 | J.S. Bach Goldberg Variations | Oxingale Records |
2008 | Odd Couple | Oxingale Records |
2008 | And if the song be worth a smile | Pentatone |
2009 | Figment | Oxingale Records |
2010 | Meeting of the Spirits | Oxingale Records |
2011 | Shuffle.Play.Listen (In collaboration with Christopher O'Riley | Oxingale Records |
2011 | Matteo: 300 Years of Italian Cello | Oxingale Records |
2012 | Paul Moravec: Northern Lights Electric | BMOP/sound |
2012 | Laura Elise Schwendinger: Three Works | Albany Music Distribution |
2013 | Glass: Cello Concerto No. 2 "Naqoyqatsi" | Orange Mountain Music |
2013 | The Hours Begin to Sing | Pentatone |
2013 | AngelHeart | Oxingale Records |
2014 | Akoka: Reframing Oliver Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time | Oxingale Records |
2015 | Beethoven, Period. | PENTATONE |
2015 | Orbit | PENTATONE |
2015 | J.S. Bach The Cello Suites According to Anna Magdalena | PENTATONE |
2016 | Shuffle.Play.Listen | PENTATONE |
2016 | Schubert Arpeggione Sonata & String Quintet | PENTATONE |
2016 | Ouvertures to Bach | PENTATONE |
2016 | Out of the Shadows | PENTATONE |
2017 | Akoka - Reframing Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time | PENTATONE |
2017 | Meeting of the Spirits | PENTATONE |
2017 | Troika | PENTATONE |
2018 | PENTATONE OXINGALE SERIES ''MOZART DIVERTIMENTO & Preludes to Bach" | PENTATONE |
2018 | PENTATONE OXINGALE SERIES "Tippet Rise Opus 2017" | PENTATONE |
2018 | PENTATONE OXINGALE SERIES ''Isang Yun - Sunrise Falling" | PENTATONE |
2020 | MON AMI, Mon Amour - French Repertoire for Cello and Piano (with Mari Kodama) | PENTATONE |
References
- ^ Judy Polan, "Q & A with Matt Haimovitz"[permanent dead link],The Jewish Ledger, April 22, 2010
- ProQuest 110521479.
- ^ [1] Archived August 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Usmani, Josh. "Free Comic Book Day Finds an Exciting Annual Home at Carol and John's | Arts Lead | Cleveland Scene". Clevescene.com. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
- ^ "Primephonic | Luna Pearl Woolf". Archived from the original on 2018-04-14. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
- ^ "Sheet music from award-winning contemporary composers". Oxingalemusic.com. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
- ^ Ginell, Richard (January 19, 2012). "Shuffle. Play. Listen". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
- ^ Johnson, Daniel Stephen (March 11, 2013). "A Second Look at Philip Glass's Monumental 'Naqoyqatsi'". WQXR New York. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
Further reading
- Russell, Anna (September 17, 2018). "Reunion". The Talk of the Town. The Musical Life. The New Yorker. Vol. 94, no. 28. p. 16.[a]
Notes
- ^ Online version is titled "An emotional reunion between cello and cellist".
External links
- Haimovitz official biography
- Matt Haimovitz Interview
- Oxingale records
- Hear Matt Haimovitz in concert from WGBH boston
- "Redefining Success, Off the Beaten Track - Cellist Matt Haimovitz, Bringing Bach to the Bar Band Stage" - review by Richard Scheinin in "San Jose Mercury News, 4.20.2005
- Discography on Deutsche Grammophon
- BACH & friends Documentary
- Artist representation on National Public Radio