Maya Beiser
Maya Beiser
Maya Beiser is an Israeli-born American classical cellist, performing artist and producer who lives in New York City. She has an international career as a performer and recording artist. Beiser was raised on a kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentine father, and graduated from Yale University School of Music. The New Yorker magazine described her as a "cello goddess" and the San Francisco Chronicle called her "the queen of contemporary cello"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
CountryUnited States of America
cultures multimedia music theater
'Provenance' is more than a multimedia concert. It's a journey that unifies cultures through music, theater and beautiful visuals.
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Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.
relate happens our-lives
I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.
done rebel wanted
I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.
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I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.