All Amit-Peled articles
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VideoBernard Herrmann’s Psycho Suite for Strings
Amit Peled conducts the Mount Vernon Virtuosi in this performance of Herrmann’s classic and chilling score
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Fauré’s Élégie performed by six cellos
Amit Peled and Mount Vernon Virtuosi CelloGang perform an arrangement for cello choir
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Focus
The Strad Podcast Episode #44: Amit Peled on playing in cello choirs
The cellist speaks about the educational and professional benefits of playing in a massed ensemble
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A new concerto for cello and chorus, featuring cellist Amit Peled
The premiere performance of ‘Houses of Peace’ by Joshua Bornfield which took place earlier this month
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Blogs
‘Your salad will be so tasty!’: When musicians and food collide
Paring away at old transcripts from former Strad interviewees, Rita Fernandes presents string players’ food and cooking analogies that faced the chop and didn’t make the final dish
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Sound and sculptures: Amit Peled, Ismael Guerrero and Zemer Peled
Cellists Amit Peled and Ismael Guerrero perform alongside sculptures by Peled’s sister, Zemer Peled, in a programme called ‘Siblings’
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John Clayton’s ‘The Hill We Climb’ performed by cellists Amit Peled and Mount Vernon Virtuosi
A chance to watch the premiere performance of the work set to the poem of the same name by Amanda Gorman
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Amit Peled plays an African-American Spiritual
The Israeli cellist Amit Peled plays ‘A Motherless Child’, an African American Spiritual newly arranged for cello and orchestra, with the Asheville Symphony. Read Sentimental Work: Amit Peled Read Cellist Amit Peled launches online cello academy sessions Watch 12-year-old violinist Leia Zhu plays Kodály with cellist Amit Peled
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News
Cellist Amit Peled launches online cello academy sessions
‘The First Hour’ guides cellists through the first hour of a daily practice regimen
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Review
Aviv Quartet, Amit Peled: Schubert
A light but not lightweight approach imbues this with a sense of wonder
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12-year-old violinist Leia Zhu plays Kodály with cellist Amit Peled
12-year-old violinist Leia Zhu performs Zoltan Kodaly’s Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 with cellist Amit Peled. The performance was recorded live in Eilon, Israel, this month. Amit Peled has recently been appointed music director of CityMusic Cleveland. Read more here .
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News
CityMusic Cleveland appoints cellist-conductor as music director
Amit Peled, who played Pablo Casals’s legendary cello for six years, will replace the composer-conductor Avner Dorman as the ensemble’s music director
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Cello lullaby above the Atlantic with Amit Peled
Israeli-American cellist Amit Peled was returning to the US from Austria following a performance of the Rococo Variations when the Austrian Airlines flight attendants asked him to play something. He chose Brahms’s famous lullaby. Peled was travelling with a Thomas Dodd cello from 1800 which used to belong to ...
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Bohemian Rhapsody for cello sextet
Amit Peled and the Peabody Cello Gang perform a new arrangement of Bohemian Rhapsody for six cellos. The five young cellists are students in Peled’s studio at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. They are Jiaoyang Xu, Mafalda Santos, Joseph Staten, Ismael Guerrero, and Tzu-Jou Yeh The arrangement, ...
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News
Cellist has strings confiscated at airport
Amit Peled was asked to surrender his spare set of strings due to concerns about them being used as a weapon
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Mexican cellists play Piazzolla
Cellist and conductor Amit Peled with his Peabody students and selected Mexican cellists perform for Festival de Musica de Camera de San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
