2009/10 Concert Season
8PM, Cabell Hall Auditorium, University of Virginia
| October 27, 2009 |
AMIT PELED, cello & ELI KALMAN, piano |
Underwriter: Prompt Care
Guarantor: Embassy of Israel
Children’s Concert Principal Underwriter: BAMA Works Fund of the Dave Matthews Band in the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation and The Inez Duff Bishop Trust
Program
| “Homage to Russia” | |
| Prokofiev | Sonata for Cello & Piano op.119 |
| Shostakovich | Sonata for Cello & Piano op.40 |
| Rachmaninoff | Sonata for Cello & Piano |
“[Peled] has the flair of the young Rostropovich, and the mastery of a seasoned player.” – American Record Guide
Artist Biographies
A multi faced artist, soloist, chamber musician and an enthusiastic teacher, Israeli cellist Amit Peled was recently hailed by the American Record Guide as “having the flair of the young Rostropovich”.
Mr. Peled has been the featured guest artist in some of the world’s major concert halls such as: Wigmore Hall, London, Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall, NY City, Salle Gaveau, Paris, National Auditorium in Barcelona, Konzerthaus Berlin and Tel Aviv’s Man Auditorium. Among the orchestras that he has collaborated with are the European Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Saarbrucken, Orquestra Sinfonica de Barcelona i National de Cataluña, London Soloists, Jerusalem symphony, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Tel Aviv Soloists, Haifa symphony, Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra, Velcea Philharmonic, Hartford Symphony, Nashua Symphony, String Orchestra of the Rockies, to name a few.
Highlights of the 2007/08 season included solo appearances with twenty different orchestras exploring the majority of the cello concerto repertoire. Moreover, Peled has just signed an exclusive recording contract with Centaur Records and will record the first CD out of three with the String Orchestra of the Rockies titled “The Jewish Soul”. He will continue his Beethoven Sonata Cycle with pianist Alon Goldstein in Israel, USA, Spain and Germany. As an advocate of Israeli music, Mr. Peled has just released the Cello Concerto by Mark Kopytman with the Tel Aviv Soloists under the JMC label and premiered a concerto dedicated to him by Israeli composer Erel Paz with conductor Ilan Volkov.
Being one of the youngest cello professors in the United States, Amit joined the distinguished faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in September 2003. He was recently the featured Artist on the prestigious Internet Cello Society website. This summer he will conduct intensive master classes at the Euro Arts Festival, Germany, the Heifetz Institute USA, and at the Violoncello Forum in Madrid Spain.
Peled is a frequent participant at prestigious festivals such as the Marlboro Music Festival, Newport Music Festival, Schleswig Holstein Festival, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Cape Cod Music Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Moselfestwochen, Strings in the Mountains, Four Seasons, Bastad, Prussia Cove, Millstatt Musikwochen and Kfar Blum.
Mr. Peled’s many recordings can be heard frequently on the Israeli National Classical Music Radio & TV, NPR, WGBH Boston, WFMT Chicago, WQXR NY, Saarlandischer Rundfunk, Deutschland Radio Berlin, Hessischer Rundfunk, Radio France and Swedish National Radio & TV.
Mr. Peled plays a rare Andrea Guarneri Cello ca. 1689
www.amitpeled.com
Eli Kalman has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in Romania, Israel, Germany, Hungary, Japan, United States and Canada. Hailing from Israel, he was the recipient of the Paul Collins Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship for Excellence at UW-Madison.
He has performed on San Francisco Performances and on the Emmanuel Music-Schumann Chamber Series in Boston, the Connoisseur Series at Wichita State University, Myra Hess Series in Chicago and on other various venues. He was an enthusiastic artist in-residence at the Chamber Music Festival at Banff, Canada and since 2004 he has been a frequent guest artist at the Token Creek Festival.
In 2001 he recorded the works for solo piano and cello and piano by Erwin Junger and in 2006 Robert Schumann’s Sonatas for Violin and Piano with violinist Rose Mary Harbison. Other recordings of his recitals have been heard on Jerusalem Radio and for the most part on Wisconsin National Public Radio and WFMT in Chicago. His latest recording with cellist Amit Peled “The Jewish Soul” was released on Centaur Records in 2009. His research interests include neglected repertoire for strings and piano and the compositions of Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti and Israeli composer Erwin Junger.
In 2005, Dr. Kalman joined the piano faculty at the Young Artist Seminars at Rocky Ridge Music Center, CO. and since 2006 he has served as Professor of Piano at University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. He is also on the piano faculty at the association “Maestro“, which is a non-profit organization in Israel that provides a home base for accomplished Israeli musicians living abroad.
Dr. Kalman earned the Diploma in Piano Performance at the Academy of Music “G. Dima” in Cluj, Romania, the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.