Matt Haimovitz

Solo Cello & Electronics – Figment – with Du Yun

Cellist Matt Haimovitz is redefining what it means to be a musician in the 21st Century. He has established a reputation for bringing classical music to exciting new venues and continues to champion new cello music with exciting results.

Matt’s show tonight will be followed by the Brian Grivna & Dave Karr Quintet, a smoking jazz quintet led by two revered Twin Cities saxophone players.

Read about Brian & Dave’s Quintet here.

Tickets for Matt’s show are $20. There’s no additional charge if you want to stay for the Brian Grivna & Dave Karr Quintet

A sequel to his 50-State solo cello tour and recording, Anthem, released in 2003, Figment is Matt’s newest CD and it is a return to his  signature solo set, embracing the musical communities of his two home countries, the US and Canada. Inspired by centenarian composer Elliott Carter and his two Figments for solo cello, the new program brings together a wide range of important new music for cello and electronics by leading and emerging North American composers.

From the Middle Eastern microtones of Gilles Tremblay’s Threnody for Lebanon to Ana Sokolovic’s Balkan folk-influenced Vez, from Serge Provost’s cutting-edge Les Vertiges de S. for electronically-processed solo cello to up and coming composer/songstress Du Yun’s San, a deconstruction of haunting ancient Chinese fragments, Figment embraces the diversity of our collective experience.

The program, which also includes music by Steven Stucky, Luna Pearl Woolf, Christopher Rouse, and composer/producer Socalled, celebrates innovative North American composers who seek a renewed lyricism and epitomize a new era of hope and creativity in the face of challenging times
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“Matt Haimovitz is among the world’s finest classical cellists. Like Yo-Yo Ma, he was a student of the late Leonard Rose. He played Carnegie Hall at 13 and counts violinist Itzhak Perlman among his musical mentors. …

But after literally hundreds of concert hall performances, Haimovitz couldn’t escape one fact: he rarely saw members of his own generation in the audience. A few years ago he made a decision to seek them out. … He began performing his innovative solo repertoire in rock [and rock] clubs around the country.” – National Public Radio

Star Tribune previews Matt’s show here

hear tracks from “Figment” and see video clips of Matt here

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