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Mount Vernon Virtuosi Presents Cellist Amit Peled as Featured Soloist in 'From Heart to Heart'
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Mount Vernon Virtuosi Presents Cellist
Amit Peled in From Heart to Heart
Featuring Peled in Nadia Boulanger’s “Three Pieces,” Plus Works by
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Florence Price, and Giacomo Puccini
May 6: Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD
May 7: Spencerville Church, Silver Spring, MD
May 8: Bender JCC of Greater Washington, Rockville, MD
"a glowing tone" – The New York Times
Baltimore, MD (March 24, 2022) — Renowned cellist Amit Peled appears as soloist and conductor with the Mount Vernon Virtuosi for a Mother’s Day celebration concert From Heart to Heart on Friday, May 6 at 12:00pm at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, MD; Saturday, May 7, 2022 at 4:00pm at the Spencerville Church in Silver Spring, MD; and May 8, 2022 at 11:00am and 2:00pm at Bender JCC of Greater Washington in Rockville, MD. Peled is featured as soloist in Nadia Boulanger’s Three Pieces for Cello and Piano, and then leads the orchestra from the podium in Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s String Quartet in E-flat Major, Florence Price’s Andante Moderato from String Quartet in G Major, and Giacomo Puccini’s Crisantemi. The Sunday, May 8 concert at 11:00am is open to all ages and geared specifically for families with young children.
On Friday, April 29, 2022, Amit Peled releases his next album, Solus et una, on CTM Classics. A follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2018 album Bach Vol. 1, Solus et una features J.S. Bach’s Suites Nos. 4 and 5 for Violoncello Solo, plus a brand new cello choir arrangement of the Andante from Brahms’ Symphony No. 3, performed by the Mount Vernon Virtuosi cellos. Suites Nos. 4 and 5 were recorded and engineered by six-time Grammy Award-winning recording producer Da-Hong Seetoo. The Allemande from Bach’s Suite No. 5 is out now as a single.
Concert Information
From Heart to Heart
Friday, May 6, 2022 at 12:00pm
Enoch Pratt Free Library | 400 Cathedral St | Baltimore, MD
Tickets: Free, donations encouraged
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Saturday, May 7, 2022 at 4:00pm
Spencerville Church | 16325 New Hampshire Ave | Silver Spring, MD
Tickets: Free, donations encouraged
Link: https://www.
Sunday, May 8, 2022 at 11:00am (Family Concert)
Bender JCC of Greater Washington | 6125 Montrose Rd | Rockville, MD
Tickets: Free, donations encouraged
Link: https://www.
Sunday, May 8, 2022 at 2:00pm
Bender JCC of Greater Washington | 6125 Montrose Rd | Rockville, MD
Tickets: Free, donations encouraged
Link: https://www.
Program:
FANNY MENDELSSOHN HENSEL: String Quartet in E-flat Major
FLORENCE PRICE: Andante Moderato from String Quartet in G Major
NADIA BOULANGER: Three Pieces for Cello and Piano (arr. for Cello and Strings)
Amit Peled, cello
GIACOMO PUCCINI: Crisantemi
About Amit Peled
Internationally renowned cellist Amit Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting and virtuosic instrumentalists on the concert stage today. Having performed in many of the world’s most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center in New York, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., Salle Gaveau in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, and the Konzerthaus Berlin, Peled has released over a dozen recordings on the Naxos, Centaur, Delos, and CTM Classics labels. Musical America named Peled one of the Top 30 Influencers of 2015.
Recent career highlights include Bach Suite cycles in the United States, Europe, and Israel; performances of the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto at the Kennedy Center; a debut collaboration with the Peabody Chamber Orchestra led by Maestra Marin Alsop; a return to the Ravinia Festival in celebration of Peled’s recording of the Brahms Cello Sonatas on the Goffriller cello (1733) once owned by the legendary cellist Pablo Casals; a return visit as a soloist to the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico; performances of the Shostakovich Cello Concerto and Penderecki’s Second Cello Concerto conducted by the legendary Krzysztof Penderecki himself; Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata recorded on the Casals cello; and a worldwide musical celebration of Beethoven’s Sonatas for Cello and Piano to commemorate the composer’s 250th anniversary.
An enthusiastic chamber music artist, Peled is a member of the acclaimed Tempest Trio with violinist Ilya Kaler and pianist Alon Goldstein. Peled also performs with Goldstein and clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein as a member of the Goldstein-Peled-Fiterstein Trio.
One of the most sought-after cello professors in the world, Peled is a professor at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University where he has taught since 2003 and was one of the youngest professors ever hired by a major conservatory. He has instructed students who have gone on to garner top prizes at international competitions such as the Carlos Prieto International Competition in Mexico, the Schoenefeld International Competition in China, and Young Concert Artists Guild in New York. Embracing the new era of the pandemic, Peled recently established the Amit Peled Online Cello Academy in order to reach cellists all over the world with private lessons and in-depth courses on his First Hour technique method.
Passing on the tradition in which he performed with his mentors Bernard Greenhouse and Boris Pergamenschikow, Peled regularly performs with the Amit Peled Cello Gang. Composed of students from Peled’s studio at the Peabody Institute, members of the Cello Gang range in age from undergraduate freshmen to second year master’s students. Peled and the Cello Gang tour regularly around the country with recent performances at the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, the Society of Four Arts in Palm Beach, the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, as a resident ensemble in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and all across Maryland, the gang’s home state. Peled is also the founder, conductor, and artistic director of the Mount Vernon Virtuosi, a chamber orchestra dedicated to nurturing the careers of recently graduated music students, which annually performs a four-program season in Baltimore, Silver Spring, and Rockville, Maryland.
Raised on a kibbutz in Israel, Amit Peled began playing the cello at age 10. From 2012 through 2018, Peled performed on the Pablo Casals 1733 Goffriller cello, which was loaned to him personally by Casals’ widow, Marta Casals Istomin. Today, he performs on a cello made by the Italian master Giovanni Grancino, ca. 1695, on generous loan from the Roux Family Foundation.
Amit Peled is represented worldwide by CTM Classics. For more information, visit www.amitpeled.com.
About Mount Vernon Virtuosi
Founded in 2018 by internationally renowned cellist Amit Peled, Mount Vernon Virtuosi is a chamber orchestra based in Baltimore, Maryland. Comprised of seventeen string players, the organization’s mission is to provide a place of artistic growth for the young musician on the brink of their professional career. By providing a platform for musicians to continue developing their skills, we encourage their personal growth by engaging with audiences of all ages through exceptional performances and community engagement activities throughout the Baltimore and Washington DC region.
The Mount Vernon Virtuosi regularly performs at three venues in Maryland – the Pratt Library in Baltimore, Spencerville Seventh-day Adventist Church in Silver Spring, and the Bender JCC in Rockville. Through the generous contributions of dedicated individuals, all regular season performances are presented free of charge. Mount Vernon Virtuosi partners with community organizations throughout the Baltimore area, with concerts and education initiatives in schools, prisons, hospitals, hospice, and in collaboration with local venues that provide easy access to community members.
Beyond regular season concerts in the Baltimore/Washington area, Mount Vernon Virtuosi has toured throughout the East Coast and records exclusively for the CTM Classics recording label. The orchestra’s first recording, “Mozart Live”, was released in 2019. www.mountvernonvirtuosi.com.
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