Press Excerpts:

"Then Haimovitz, in suit and tie, took off on a jaw-dropping solo version of the ``Star Spanged Banner,'' replete with the ambulance sounds, crashing rocket effects and the general mayhem that made Hendrix's version a classic.

When he was done, the place exploded. Punks, rockers, rappers, they all went a little crazy."
            - Boston Herald "But it may be his success on the club circuit that is his greatest achievement, uncovering there a level of communication more immediate and more significant in some ways than can be found in any concert hall."
            - Asbury Park Press "Critics and audiences are applauding Haimovitz for his moving interpretations and for renewing a sense of relevance and intimacy to the classical music experience."
            - Bartlesville OK Press "Although Haimovitz continues to perform in the United States and Europe as a traditional concerto soloist and with chamber groups, his amplified "Anthem" tour has gradually garnered him a far broader public profile."
            - The Star-Ledger "Civic Music Association kicks off its 51st season of concerts this month with a roster of performers who have a wide rang of expertise including cello, piano, brass and the tenor voice.
The 2004-05 season will open Oct. 10 with cellist Matt Haimovitz. Born in 1970, Haimovitz has won new classical music fans through his inspired playing and his broad choice of repertoire.
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            - The Oklahoman ""The composers I am choosing are embracing vernaculars like blues and jazz and rock and roll in their music," Haimovitz said.

He said that playing this music in nightclubs allows people to leave preconceptions about new music behind."
            - The Wichita Eagle "Sense of intimacy
"Of course my cello sounds great in a concert hall," he said. "But I guess, for me . . . it was frustrating that the classical music world wasn't reaching out to broaden its audiences. It had lost, what is, for me, the origin of music - the very human and communicative aspects, based on emotion, that can connect with the universal. Over the years, it had lost its sense of intimacy.""
            - Des Moines Register "The club date is nothing new, as Haimovitz has been touring and playing in smaller rock clubs for a while. He claims in press material to enjoy having both punks and rockers sitting next to the classical purists in his audience.
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            - Arkansas Times "This year's program features such Ropeadope acts as guitarist Charlie Hunter, horn-blasting rockers Sex Mob and Seattle improv unit Critters Buggin'. But it also includes such unlikely non-Ropeadope talents as cellist Matt Haimovitz and rapper Lyrics Born. The acts are presented in a seamless flow, with unexpected improvised collaborations between artists who seemingly share little in common musically.
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            - Billboard "Matt Haimovitz may be the coolest cellist of our time. Famous for playing Bach at off-the-beaten-classical-path venues such as New York's legendary punk club CBGB and Cambridge's Club Passim, Haimovitz shows up this weekend to play at Newton's First Baptist Church"
            - Boston Herald "If the classical music world didn't have Matt Haimovitz, it would have to invent him. The trendsetting cellist brought his unique programming and performing gifts to First Baptist Church in Newton Centre Saturday evening, offering a selection of film music and the Dvorak cello concerto with conductor Ronald Knudsen and the New Philharmonia Orchestra.
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            - Boston Herald "If a lesson was to be gleaned, it's that powerful music depends on the quality of its leader, not only on its instruments.
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            - The Chicago Tribune "Cellist Matt Haimovitz has established himself as one of classical music's most adventurous artists, as at ease playing the masterworks for his instrument in solo, chamber, and concerto performances in major concert halls, as he's bringing the music to new listeners in surprising new venues."
            - Honolulu Star-Bulletin "This recording captures the Mir at its best with the talented cellist Matt Haimovitz in tow.

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            - Strings Magazine "For his next CD, Haimovitz is focusing on Bartok. He plans to bring in some unlikely collaborators, including jazz guitarist John McLaughlin and DJ Olive. He's making an arrangement for four cellos of Led Zeppelin's Kashmir to evoke the Middle Eastern influences on Bartok.
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            - John Fleming, Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg, FL "In New Mexico I'm playing the world premiere of my arrangement of Led Zeppelin's `Kashmir' with four cellos," he says.

The album, with a working title of "Goulash," will play around with the folk music that Hungarian composer Béla Bartk discovered during the early 20th century.

"It's going to be a mixture of things," he says. "It's going to be a chunky album, a lot of Bartk, a Hungarian stew, you could say.

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            - By J.M. Barl, Alberqurque Tribune "The 33-year-old is continuing on the 50-state tour he began in September 2003, bringing the solo cello to intimate, non-classical venues across the United States and Canada. On March 12, Mr. Haimovitz will be at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton for an evening of music which could range from Gyorgy Ligeti to Led Zeppelin.
The tour is to support Mr. Haimovitz' latest CD, also called Anthem (Oxingale Records), but the broader purpose is part of the musician's quest to bring cello music to people who wouldn't normally hear it."
            - By: Susan Van Dongen, TimeOFF "Click on link to listen to audio"
            - WBUR " Here and Now" "Haimovitz opened with his trademark, and excellent, solo cello playing a Bach prelude and the two-movement Cello Sonata of Hungarian Gyrgy Ligeti. Then he turned to improvisation with DJ Olive.

Haimovitz is pretty new to the improvising game. Wisely, he structured the evening around Bartk's Romanian Folk Dances."
            - CHARLES WARD, Houston Chronicle "Last week I was performing at the El Rey Theater in Albuquerque, New Mexico," he says. "There were a lot of rockers. I was joined by members of the New Mexico Symphony. We played Bach, Ligeti, Boccherini, Puccini, Mozart, my arrangement of a Led Zeppelin piece, and the Vivaldi double concerto. I thought, 'This is a schizophrenic program.' Then I had a revelation: This is the way we experience music today."
            - Elaine Strauss , U.S. 1 Newspaper "In the end, of course, it's the music that matters. Ross lists cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Matt Haimovitz and mezzo-soprano Cecelia Bartoli as examples of respected classical artists who have tried to reach broader audiences by embracing other styles and commercial strategies."
            - Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY "The truth is that ever since he won success, as defined by the classical music establishment, Haimovitz has been moving away from it -- and redefining success for himself. For years, while performing the same concertos, over and over, with some of the world's great orchestras, he says, he had looked out into concert halls full of aging faces. What sort of future did this music have? To find new listeners, he says, there had to be a way for ``the greatness of music to get out there in a more simple and direct way.''"
            - By Richard Scheinin, Mercury News "Haimovitz returned to the Tractor on the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks to launch his latest project: a U.S. concert tour and recording of a program of new American music entitled "Anthem.""
            - By Thomas May, andante contributor "And the Tractor crowd, more attentive than many of their counterparts at Seattle's Benaroya Hall, couldn't resist: though beer-and brisket-toting audiences are usually a recipe for rowdiness, this group was eerily, quietly riveted."
            - Jason Verlinde, andante.com "Through some adventuresome programming and some downright clever marketing and promotion, Haimovitz has done a lot of good for himself and for living (and a few dead) American composers. His Anthem album has appeared on numerous top 10 lists, including the Best Classical Album of 2003 on Amazon.com."
            - posted by Jerry Bowles , sequenza21 ""I'm trying with this project to look at the concerto in a new way and then bring it back to the symphony orchestra. Maybe with David's piece, people who like big band music will come back to the orchestra, too, and break down the walls between certain audiences."
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            - CLIFTON J. NOBLE JR., The Republican "'I'm blown away by David's music,' Haimovitz said. 'He has an extraordinary ability to absorb and create with jazz and other kinds of music. In this piece, he transforms the cello part to a cross between a saxophone and a cantor.'"
            - MAE G. BANNER, The Saratogian "While the "Anthem" rendition alone is worth the price of admission, the disc is rich with finds. It includes the late great gay composer Lou Harrison's Prelude to "Rhymes with Silver." Lou had intended to arrange the score's solo cello movements into a stand-alone suite, but died before he could begin the project. Although the piece was intended for Yo-Yo Ma and the Mark Morris Dance Company, Haimovitz actually performed "Rhymes"' New York premiere with Morris' dancers. Haimovitz thus delivers a definitive performance.
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            - By Jason Victor Bellecci-Serinus, Bay Windows, Boston "On November 11, 2003, Matt Haimovitz performed live from the VPR Studios. He spoke with VPR's Walter Parker and performed several pieces from "Anthem," his album celebrating living American composers. Listen to the interview with Walter Parker."
            - vpr.net "Haimovitz’s fans will even get another chance to hear him perform a few warhorses. DG, the label Haimovitz once sparred with over his desire to perform contemporary music, is planning to reissue the cellist’s recordings of works by Bruch, Saint-Saens, and Lalo."
            - Michael Markowtiz, PlaybillArts New York, NY "His performance of the suites drew rave reviews; his live shows and his recording of them were both critically acclaimed."
            - Christoffer Molnar , The Cleveland Free Times "Cellist Matt Haimovitz may have left the Valley -- he now teaches at McGill University in Montreal -- but he´s returning to his old stomping grounds for an unusual show"
            - by James Heflin , valley advocate "Matt Haimovitz: The cellist has gained notoriety touring the country's normally classical-free venues, such as the legendary rock club CBGB in New York and Cambridge's Club Passim. In the process, he's won new, younger audiences for Bach and the like. Now, doesn't he sound like someone the Pops could use?"
            - T.J. Medrek, bostonherald.com "Tomorrow at the Iron Horse, Haimovitz will take the stage along with the Pittsburgh Collective, a contemporary 20-piece jazz group led by David Sanford, Northampton resident and music teacher at Mount Holyoke College, to play Sanford's brand new ''Scherzo Grosso for cello and Big Band.''"
            - BY JOHN STIFLER, The Daily Hampshire Gazette "Meanwhile, cellist Matt Haimovitz looks for noisy venues.

A 34-year-old former prodigy who toured as a soloist with major orchestras as a teenager, he recently has sought out solo performances in bars, pizzerias and punk clubs. He figures that Bach performed in noisy coffeehouses, so why not take the music back into the mainstream?"
            - Richard Scheinin, Mercury News "Haimovitz knows something about audience building. He made his most publicized mark several years ago when he began performing amplified versions of Bach's Cello Suites in jazz clubs and punk bars. This was seen as a bold, unusual move, an attempt to bring classical music to young-and-hip listeners on their own turf, instead of trying to lure them into more traditional venues.
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            - Ken Keuffel, JOURNAL ARTS REPORTER ""After all these years, not seeing my own generation at my performances, I wanted to," he says.
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            - Margaret Hair, goTriad.com - Greensboro, NC "Jandrokovic commissioned song cycles,based on her own original texts, from three accomplished composers - Lori Laitman, Luna Pearl Woolf and 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Moravec"
            - JOANNE SYDNEY LESSNER, Opera News "When Deb Sherr, director of Greenwood Music Camp in Cummington, called Northampton composer Luna Pearl Woolf on Dec. 30, 2004, to report that Woolf had been chosen as recipient of Greenwood's annual Nathan Gottschalk Memorial Fund commission, it was only six days after Sherr had returned from a vacation in Thailand, barely escaping the tsunami that swept across coastal southeast Asia on Dec."
            - John Stifler, The Daily Hampshire Gazette "Jama Jandrokovic enlisted the help of renowned composers to help her set her love poems to music.
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            - EUNNIE PARK, NorthJersey.com "Haimovitz returned to the Tractor on the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks to launch his latest project: a U.S. concert tour and recording of a program of new American music entitled "Anthem.""
            - Thomas May
, Andante Corp "Matt Haimovitz produced a gorgeous full and rich tone that gloried in Korngold’s Romantic idiom, in which the Cello Concerto abounds."
            - by William Thomas Walker, Classical Voice of North Carolina "A young East Coast-based virtuoso, Haimovitz happily disregards musical boundaries. His latest CD is titled "Goulash,'' a potent mix of Bartok, Led Zeppelin, Osvaldo Golijov and others."
            - WYNNE DELACOMA, Chicago Sun TImes "In between came a tight, eloquent performance of Beethoven's Triple Concerto with a vibrant set of guest artists -- violinist Andy Simionescu, cellist Matt Haimovitz and pianist Micah Yui."
            - By Tim Smith, Baltimore Sun "The result is even more unexpected. As the musician passionately digs into the cello; it melds with the environment and enraptures the audience, even among the clinking of glasses."
            - Andrew Druckenbrod, Post-Gazette "What Haimovitz has going for him is oodles of talent, a keen ear for repertoire and the cello itself, which generates some of the warmest, richest, most pleasing sounds you'll hear."
            - Jim Fischer, This Weeks News, Columbus Ohio "cellist Matt Haimovitz's Goulash, which mixes classical, rock, electronic, and Middle Eastern music, at number 23."
            - By Ben Mattison, PlaybillArts New York, NY "A raucous arrangement of the song is the opening track on "Goulash!" "We did it a few times in New Mexico and Texas, and the audience got up and started dancing around like a rock concert," he said. "It was amazing to see.""
            - Wilma Salisbury, Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland "No one puts more variety into his musical stew than cellist Matt Haimovitz, who makes a return visit to Pittsburgh Friday at Club Cafe on the South Side."
            - Mark Kanney, Pittsburgh Tribune "Ever hear "The Star-Spangled Banner" played on a cello? Ever hear someone play a Led Zeppelin tune on an instrument made in 1710? Ever see classical musicians performing in a nightclub that typically hosts live jazz, folk or rock music?"
            - LILLI KUZMA, Oak Park Oak Leaves "Haimovitz's unpredictable and unanticipated methods seem to have paid off -- media outlets from The New York Times to Nightline have featured the unique musician and the accolades continue to pour in."
            - MIKE BREEN, Cincinnati City Beat "Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir," the fourth cellist slapping and tapping his instrument all over. Haimovitz followed this with his own solo deconstruction of Hendrix's Woodstock rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," and in his hands it's protest music maybe even angrier than the original.
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            - Gavin Borchert, Seattle Weekly "His new record is a delicious gumbo -- or goulash -"
            - Richard Scheinin , Mercury News "In Matt Haimovitz' brave and original recordings, there is always a personal theme. His parents are Romanian refugees who came to the United States by way of Israel (where Haimovitz was born). In "Goulash," he is making a journey into the folk idioms of his own and other peoples, just as Bartok did, and making a feast of them."
            - David Perkins, The News and Observer "On the classical end, there's also the absorbing Solo Cello Sonata by a contemporary Hungarian, Gyrgy Ligeti, plus a lovely, intricate duet piece by Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov for Haimovitz and jazz guitar icon John McLaughlin."
            - Bradley Bambarger, The Star Ledger "The works that Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly based on their research into folksongs were ideally suited to the Beachland Ballroom,"
            - Wilma Salisbury, Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland "Simionescu and Haimovitz delivered a well-considered interpretation of Zoltan Kodaly’s Duo, Op. 7 for violin and cello. The pair’s well-timed pacing of Kodaly’s musical ideas allowed the music’s inherent drama to speak for itself."
            - Jennifer Hambrick, COLUMBUS DISPATCH "The musician in question is cellist Matt Haimovitz, and believe it or not, this scenario has occurred across the United States."
            - By Andrew Druckenbrod, http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/pp/05279/583285.stm "Cellist Matt Haimovitz flourishes both in formal concerts and in improvisational jams."
            - Andrew Druckenbrod, Pittsburgh Post Gazette "Cellist Matt Haimovitz has chosen his own path when it comes to promoting classical music — but a more traditional one in his music-making."
            - Jim Lowe, Times Argus "Matt Haimovitz is no ordinary cellist. True, he has technique to burn, knows all the standard repertory and performs concertos with the world’s leading orchestras. But, far more so than most of his colleagues, he is determined to make a difference, to do his part in putting classical music back into the mainstream of Western culture rather than watching it disappear over the horizon.
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            - Robert Markow, The Strad "NOW HERE'S A crossover event in the best sense of the word."
            - Tim Page, The Washington Post "Haimovitz and Simionescu skillfully fashioned a dramatic suite of Bartok's Duos, miniatures reflecting the composer's fascination with folk music. They captured the sound of joyful dancing, woeful lament, bagpipes and buzzing mosquitoes with their committed, stylistically concise interpretation. Haimovitz's perfectly executed double-stops and artistic phrasing in a sonata by Ligeti kept the momentum going through this thought-provoking piece for cello alone.
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            - Gail Wein
, The Washington Post "Cape May audiences have heard him play the Dvorak Cello Concerto in recent years; he just toured with the Israeli Chamber Orchestra playing the Shostakovich Cello Concerto. With his decisive temperament and imposing tone, Haimovitz is perhaps a better choice for Shostakovich than some of the cellists who have played the piece at the Kimmel Center.
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            - David Patrick Stearns, The Philadelphia Inquirer "Cellist Matt Haimovitz brings an avant-garde consciousness to Schumann, Brahms, Ligeti and Shostakovich at UM's Gusman at 4 p.m. Sunday"
            - ENRIQUE FERNANDEZ, The Miami Herald "Matt Haimovitz takes musical outreach seriously. In recent years, the Israeli cellist has been performing in offbeat venues across the country, bringing Bach suites to lounges, rock clubs and coffeehouses."
            - Lawrence A. Johnson , Sun-Sentinel "If you listened to National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" this past Sunday, it's possible you heard the sound of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" being played on a cello."
            - unknown, Register-Guard "Haimovitz’s performance of Brahms’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in e minor, Opus 38 was the stuff of which legends are made."
            - Lawrence Budmen, Entertainment News and Views "Haimovitz is touring this fall with a new CD entitled "Goulash." He brings influences as diverse as Bartok, Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" and Middle Eastern and Romanian folk music."
            - From staff reports, The Huntsville Times "The last time he was here, he blew everyone away with his screeching rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”"
            - Staff Writer, The State "."Goulash: A Bartok-infused Stew," Matt Haimovitz, cello, and others (Oxingale). Matt Haimovitz, the former child prodigy, is putting his adult years to creative use,"
            - David Perkins, Correspondent, News Observer "When Haimovitz draws the bow across the strings of his 18th-century Venetian cello at the Knitting Factory on Tuesday, the music of Bela Bartok won't be the only classic you'll hear.
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            - By Sandra Barrera, Staff Writer, LA Daily News "Haimovitz, who gave his first Carnegie Hall performance at age 13, appeared utterly at ease with the thorny technical demands of the Shostakovich, playing with a penetrating sound that projected consistently above the orchestra."
            - STEPHEN THOMAS , Modesto Bee "Cellist Matt Haimovitz and UCCELLO will perform Friday, Feb. 3, at 8 p.m. at Sanders Theatre at Harvard University, 45 Quincy St.
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            - Staff Witer, Cambridge Chronicle "He has no regrets about the move and the small-venue tours, though they have come with a cost.

"Have I lost a lot of money doing this?" he said. "Probably. On the other hand, if I really was into that, I probably should have gone into law school at Harvard instead of doing music."
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            - LISA MILLEGAN, The Modesto Bee "Mostly, as pop elements infiltrate the new music scene - including Philip Glass' riff-like compositional machinery - Haimovitz moves in the opposite direction, bringing high-minded, challenging music to clubland."
            - By Josef Woodard
Special to The Times, The LA Times "On the other hand, he’s earned a rep as a maverick. He concluded a decade with the juggernaut classical imprint Deutsche Grammophon by starting his own Oxingale labelhow indie rock is that?"
            - RUPERT BOTTENBERG, The Montréal Mirror ""I really think this is a fabulous work," says Taylor, who is also the assistant conductor of the Madison Symphony Orchestra. "I'm suggesting she put it up for a Pulitzer Prize. It has everything you'd want in a piece. It has complex styles -- some ugly truths and some real beauty and some down-home New Orleans-type music. It has a multiplicity of styles, so it's difficult but very approachable."
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            - Jacob Stockinger , The Capital Times, Madison Wisconsin "Haimovitz, who is perhaps best known for his series of solo tours in clubs and other non-traditional settings, commissioned Après Moi, le Déluge as part of a series called "Buck the Concerto." Each work in the series is initially set for cello and an unconventional ensemble, such as jazz big band, electronic orchestra, or choir; later, it is arranged for symphony orchestra."
            - Ben Mattison, Playbill Arts "Haimovitz, who continues to take classical music out of concert halls and into coffeehouses and clubs (and yes, even a pizza place), performs Saturday in a Seattle tavern."
            - Sharon Wootton, The Herald - Everett, Wash "This is the most essential Mozart anniversary disc so far."
            - Bradley Bambarger, The Star Ledger "Haimovitz is a wonderful soloist, as South Bay fans know from his shows at the Espresso Garden the last couple of years. As one Bachophile said, "Led Zeppelin never sounded so good.""
            - Mark Whittington , San Jose, The Mercury News "Goulash! gets off to a rousing start as the Uccello cello ensemble, composed of Haimovitz and his students, segues from an extended version of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" to Bartok's delightful six Romanian Folk Dances."
            - Jason Victor Serinus, Bay Area Reporter "The cellist Matt Haimovitz has headed a chamber music recording on the Oxingale label called Mozart the Mason. Haimowitz's recording focuses on music related to Mozart's interest in Freemasonry (a guiding force behind The Magic Flute.)"
            - Elaine Guregian, Akron Beacon Journal "Cellist Matt Haimovitz, who has released a new recording of rarely heard Mozart chamber music, says the Kraft painting is the image of Mozart he holds in his head.

"There's a youthful sparkle in his eye in that portrait, like the 'Amadeus' character we all know," Haimovitz says. "But there's also this piercing intelligence, this dignity. He has a gravitas there that just seems to go with the mature operas and late chamber music, his greatest work.""
            - Bradley Bambarger, The Star Ledger "Here, violinist Jonathan Crow, violist Douglas McNabney, and cellist Matt Haimovitz offer an airy reading that highlights the divertimento ideal of providing pleasant aural backdrop to dining and conversation."
            - David Prince, Santa Fe New Mexican Paper "Welcome to the wild, warm, and highly musical world of cellist Matt Haimovitz, who has made it his business to bring serious music down to the nightclub. Haimovitz has a sterling classical résumé, and teaches at McGill University (his cello students joined him in his “UCCELLO” ensemble). But he has willfully avoided the pristineand sometimes prissyatmosphere of chamber music halls in favor of club life, and bully for him."
            - Josef Woodard, The Santa Barbara Independent "''Goulash" offers a little bit of everything, from Ligeti to Led Zeppelin, and the recording features such collaborators as guitar great John McLaughlin, DJ Olive and a group of Haimovitz's cello proteges, UCCELLO."
            - Keith Powers, Boston Herald "It's hard to believe that Matt Haimovitz is only 35. The American cellist, who made his symphonic debut with the Israel Philharmonic in 1984, has not only received accolades in the traditional classical arena, but has reached out to new audiences by playing cutting-edge compositions by everyone from Hendrix to Bartok in clubs, bars, and other unusual venues, in all 50 states.

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            - Jason Victor Serinus, Bay Area Reporter "Haimovitz says that he’s “never forsaken the concert hall, but an ideal week is playing a concerto one night and then going into a club the next. These two worlds are reconciled.” He is working to connect Carnegie and the coffeehouse. in effect, to create a hybrid musical experience, both democratic and rooted in classical tradition.
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            - ANNA F. BONNELL-FREIDIN, The Crimson "This long (47 minute) work is a long way from the exuberant Salzburg divertimentos of a previous decade. An atmosphere of slow ritual pervades, as would suit a gathering of the liberal-minded literati of Vienna in 1788."
            - David Perkins, Correspondent, The News Observer "The second half opened with Zoltan Kodaly's monumental Sonata for Cello Solo. Haimovitz captured its somber drama without histrionics. Displaying his exhilarating mastery, he ranged from barely audible notes to startlingly full chordal textures, from singing, vibrato-laden lines to gutsy, rasping stabs. He ended to thunderous applause."
            - By Kevin Lowenthal, Boston Globe "Tired of waiting for audiences his age to find him in the concert hall, he began to take the music directly to them in clubs and bars, traveling the country like Jack Kerouac with a cello. It was a revelation
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            - MARK STRYKER, Detroit Free Press Inc. "Perhaps there was something Sisyphean about the evening, but to hear Bach describe the wonders of the universe from six perspectives was akin to looking at six Monet haystacks or six Van Gogh self-portraits. The subject may be the same but the variety of expression is astounding.

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            - MARK STRYKER
, Detroit Free Press "Haimovitz's latest venture is the ambitious "Bartk infused stew" that is Goulash, a series of three triple concerts, based on the record of the same name, featuring the work of Bartk, Gyorgy Ligeti, Romania's Adrian Pop, Osvaldo Golijov and Led Zeppelin."
            - Steve Baylin, Ottawa Xpress "I once heard him play in a grungy pizza parlor in Jackson, Miss., and watched as he entranced unsuspecting frat boys with an eerie microtonal work for solo cello."
            - JEREMY EICHLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES "For the finale, the players set their sights farther east - and abandoned their classical orientation - by offering Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir."With its striking syncopated pattern of four long notes and two short ones, which recurs like a rondo theme, "Kashmir" made for a bracing conclusion."
            - GEORGE LOOMIS, NY SUN "The first major work of classical music to commemorate the flooding of New Orleans"
            - Arts Journal, Arts Journal "Haimovitz believes that good music naturally transcends the confines of venue, genre and definition. "To me, once you hear a good piece of music, you can't live without it. When that happens, you can never turn back."
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            - Neale McDevitt , The McGill Reporter