Baltimore-based, Israeli-American cellist, conductor, and pedagogue Amit Peled, a musician of profound artistry and charismatic stage presence, is acclaimed worldwide as one of the most exciting and virtuosic instrumentalists on the concert stage today. At 6’5″ tall, Peled started life as a basketball player and was called “larger than life” and “Jacqueline du Pré in a farmer’s body” when he enveloped his cello. Peled strives to break down the barriers of the concert hall, about which The Baltimore Sun wrote, “His amiable and inviting personality is exactly the type everyone says we’ll need more of if classical music is to survive.”

The Amit Peled Cello Gang is composed of students from Amit Peled’s studio at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where he has taught since 2003. The students come together often to perform works written or arranged for cello ensemble. The first Cello Gang CD under the CTM Classics label has been enthusiastically received worldwide.

This evening’s program will be shot with our four-camera system, streamed with impeccable video and audio, direct to you.

Amit and the gang will perform the following program:
Amit Peled, and the cellists of Baltimore’s Mount Vernon Virtuosi

Bach: Aria from Organ Pastorale in F
Arranged for cello ensemble by Alan Shulman

Shostakovich: Valse #2
Arranged for cello ensemble by Ewen Tsai

Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5
Arranged for cello ensemble by David Burndrett

Penderecki: Chaconne

Saint-Saens: Concerto in A minor, op. 33
Arranged for cello ensemble by Douglas B. Moore
Allegro non troppo
Allegro con moto
Molto Allegro

Louis Armstrong / Leonard Cohen: What A Wonderful / Hallelujah
Arranged for cello ensemble by Brett Howland