Recently hailed by the American Record Guide as “having the flair of the young Rostropovich” Israeli cellist Amit Peled is forging an international career of the highest caliber both as a soloist and as an enthusiastic teacher.
Mr. Peled has been 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 Saarbrücken, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, 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 few.
Highlights of the 2005/06 season include solo appearances with the Israel Chamber Orchestra on their US tour, the Ashland Symphony, the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, the Chautauqua Symphony and the Academia Ars Musica. Moreover, Peled is continuing his Beethoven Cycle in Israel, USA, Spain and Germany and will record the “Russian Evening” project on a DVD. 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 will later in the season premier 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, Peled joined the distinguished faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in September 2003 and will conduct intensive master classes this summer at the Euro Arts Festival, Germany, the Heifetz Institute in the US, in Toledo Spain and at the Gotland Festival in Sweden.
Mr. 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, where he played all six Bach Suites, Ludwigsburger Festspiele, playing to raving reviews Beethoven’s Triple concerto and Brahms’s Double concerto in one evening, Strings in the Mountains, Four Seasons, Båstad, Prussia Cove, Millstatt Musikwochen and Kfar Blum.
Peled performed with violinist Midori for the 1998 America Israel Cultural Foundation Gala at Lincoln Centre’s Alice Tully Hall and has been a featured guest on the 2005 Gala as well. He performed for the Marlboro 50th Anniversary concerts in Washington and NY and his recordings can be heard frequently on the Israeli National Classical Music Radio & TV, NPR, WGBH Boston, WFMT Chicago, WQXR NY, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Deutschland Radio Berlin, Hessischer Rundfunk, Radio France and Swedish National Radio & TV.
Amit is playing a rare Andrea Guarneri Cello ca. 1689
D.M.A., M.M., Diploma in Piano Performance; Piano, Piano Literature, Chamber Music; has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in Romania, Israel, Germany, Hungary, 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 was an enthusiastic artist in-residence at the Chamber Music Festival at Banff, Canada where he has performed for three consecutive years in the Art of the Ensemble concert series. Dr. Kalman performed at the Token Creek Festival, the Emmanuel Music-Schumann Chamber Series in Boston, the Connoisseur Series at Wichita State University and as a part of the acclaimed Myra Hess Memorial concerts in Chicago, with cellist Amit Peled. He also performed repeatedly on the Faculty Concert Series at UW-Madison with cellist Parry Karp. In 2001, he recorded on CD the works for solo piano and cello and piano by Erwin Junger and lately 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. 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. 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. “Maestro” members work with qualified academic trainees on the pedagogy of teaching instrumental music.
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.
Peled has a promising future…
Strad Magazine
His sound is forged in the innermost chambers of the soul and is magically transferred to the tips of his fingers…
Dr. D. Sandler
KOL-BO (Haifa)
There were tears mixed with the applause when this concert ended.
Palm Beach News