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Amit Peled

Cello

"Peled's beautiful tone imbued us with that intoxicating feeling associated with Elgar's concerto … the magic of his playing commenced with the opening chords and created pure and lucid tones. There was no superficiality or desire to 'impress' … His sound is forged in the innermost chambers of the soul and is magically transferred to the tips of his fingers … Peled is extremely gifted - his playing is secure and serene."

KOL-BO (Haifa)

The young Israeli cellist Amit Peled is already acknowledged as one of the most gifted and creative talents on the music scene today. Originally from Kibbutz Yizre'el, he is rapidly forging an international career of the highest caliber. In May of 1999, he graduated "with distinction in performance" from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Laurence Lesser. Before entering the Conservatory, he studied intensively with Bernard Greenhouse. In October 2000 Amit will commence his graduate studies at the Hochschule fur Musik ,,Hanns Eisler", Berlin in the class of Boris Pergamenchikow.

Aged sixteen, Peled made his début as soloist with the European Philharmonic Orchestra in Paris. He has since appeared as guest artist with numerous orchestras and has presented enthusiastically received solo recitals in France, Belgium, Holland, Israel, Sweden, England, Canada and the United States. Previous teachers have included Aldo Parisot, Uri Vardi, Shmuel Magen, Emanuel Gruber.

Highlights of Mr Peled's 2000 - 2001 season include his début as soloist with Spain's Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya playing Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, a second collaboration with the Herzliya Orchestra playing Shostakovitch 1st Concerto, débuts with the Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra, Sweden, as part of the euro musica vitae 2000 festival and with the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra, playing the Schumann Concerto. Recitals début in Palma de Mallorca, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields and St. James. In the U.S.A, Amit will perform in the Marlboro 50th Anniversary Concerts in New York and Washington D.C., November 2000 and in September 2001 will be the guest soloist of the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra playing the Dvorak Concerto at their opening concert of the season.

Among his numerous honors, Mr Peled has been awarded First Prizes in the François Shapira, Heida Hermann's International Young Artists, Five Towns and Clairmont Cello competitions. He recorded and made live radio broadcast appearances on the Israeli, French, Swedish Classical Music Channels and a special presentation on the Young Artists Showcase program in New York. His chamber music experience includes, amongst others, collaborations with Michael Tree, Isidore Choen, Peter Frankel, Samuel Rhodes, Mariel Nordman, Victor Rosenbaum, Ulf Wallin, Peter Csaba and Bruno Cannino. In December 1998, he joined Midori in a gala concert for the America-Israel Cultural Foundation at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. He has also participated in the Banff, Lapland and Kfar Blum festivals, the Gregor Piatigorsky Seminar, the 2nd and 4th Jerusalem International Chamber Music Encounters with mentor Isaac Stern and the Marlboro Chamber Music Festival.

Amit Peled currently plays the very beautiful English 'Thomas Dodd' cello, dated 1800

Reviews

Conductor: Yaron Traub; Soloist: Amit Peled, Cello; Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya
"The atmosphere changed subtly, flowing into the music of Tchaikovsky's variations on the Roccoco Theme, performed by the Israeli soloist, Amit Peled, whose performance was outstanding. His beautiful sound expressed a depth of feeling which evoked a rousing applause from the audience.": LA VANGUARDIA, January 17, 2000 Barcelona, Spain.
Amit Peled's Haydn's Cello Concerto in C major sounded uncommonly lively, even tempestuous. Peled, 21, combined elegance with technical skill and a finely developed sense of dynamic nuances and lyrical expression.
Jerusalem Music Center, Mishkenot Sha'ananim, July 7. 1995: Uri Epstein JERUSALEM POST
"Peled's beautiful tone imbued us with that intoxicating feeling associated with Elgar's concerto … the magic of his playing commenced with the opening chords and created pure and lucid tones. There was no superficiality or desire to 'impress' … His sound is forged in the innermost chambers of the soul and is magically transferred to the tips of his fingers … Peled is extremely gifted - his playing is secure and serene.": KOL-BO (Haifa), June, 1998
CELLIST Amit Peled, 22, deserves two bouquets. One is for including in the program Kodaly's Cello Solo Sonata, one of the most intriguing, demanding and infrequently performed works of the 20th century cello repertoire. The other is for performing it well in the Youth at the Center series. There is something sweepingly temperamental about Peled's playing, with a rich sound and the sense that he is unreservedly immersed in the music. He appears to have no technical problems, which means a lot in a work as studded with potential problems as this. Couperin's Five Pieces for Cello and Keyboard, with pianist, Noam Greenberg, 21, were more emphatically delineated in character than the usual treatment gives. The diabolism of the concluding "Air de Diable" movement turned out to be that of a particularly good-natured devil, which added to his satanic charm. The emotionally high-voltage Sonata in F by Brahms was played with all the enormous tension and release that makes it so gripping.
Jerusalem Music Center, Mishkenot Sha'ananim, February 3. 1994: Uri Epstein JERUSALEM POST

Contact details and further information

ISRAEL:
Kibbutz Yizreel
D. N. Yizreel
19350 Israel
Phone/Fax: 972 - 6 - 65 98 306

U.S.A:
Judith Davidson
18 Colony Drive
Orleans, MA
02653
Phone/Fax: 508 - 240 - 2148
E-mail Judith Davidson

GERMANY:
Wilhelmshoeher Str. 8
12161 Berlin
Phone/Fax: 49 - 30 - 85 07 62 63

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