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Matt Haimovitz
מאט חיימוביץ
Matt Haimovitz photographed in Montréal, Quebec, Canada at the MBAM Bourgie Hall., 2017
Born	(1970-12-03)December 3, 1970 (age 54) Bat-Yam, Israel
Education	Juilliard School,Harvard University
Occupation	Cellist
Years active	1984 - present
Employer(s)	Oxingale Productions, Inc; McGill University Schulich School of Music; Mannes New School of Music
Website	https://www.matthaimovitz.com/

Matt Haimovitz (Hebrew:מאט חיימוביץ; born December 3, 1970) is acellist based in the United States and Canada. Born in Israel, he grew up in the US from the age of five. He plays mainly a cello made byMatteo Goffriller in 1710.

Matt Haimovitz was born in the Israeli town of Bat Yam as son of Meir and Marlena Haimovitz, aJewish couple who moved to Israel fromRomania.^[1] When he was 5 years old, the family settled inPalo Alto,California.

Haimovitz began to study the cello at the age of seven withIrene Sharp inCalifornia. At the age of nine, he switched teachers toGábor Reitő. When Haimovitz was twelve years old,Itzhak Perlman, who was impressed by his performances at a music camp inSanta Barbara, introduced him toLeonard Rose. In order for him to study with Rose at theJuilliard School, his family moved toNew York in 1983. Haimovitz attended high school atCollegiate School (New York City) on theUpper West Side.^[2] Rose described Haimovitz as "probably the greatest talent I have ever taught", praising his "ravishingly beautiful tone" and "unusual sense of style and musical sensitivity".^{[citation needed]}

In February 1985, Haimovitz joinedZubin Mehta and theIsrael Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert which was filmed and broadcast. This success was followed in 1986 by an American tour with Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic, as well as concerts with theNew York Philharmonic. In the same year Haimovitz was awarded anAvery Fisher Career Grant for exceptional musical achievement, the youngest musician to receive this award. Over the next decade, Haimovitz appeared with many of the major orchestras of North America, Europe and Asia, and worked with the most distinguished conductors. In 1987, at the age of 17, Haimovitz signed an exclusive recording contract withDeutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, where several of his recordings of standard and non-standard repertoire won international awards.^[3]

After graduating fromHarvard College in 1996, and with the termination of his contract with Deutsche Grammophon, Haimovitz became dissatisfied with the traditional career path of a modern classical musician. He began exploring non-standard classical and non-classical repertoire more intensively, and began a program of concerts in unusual venues.^[4] A 2002 North American tour that attracted international attention saw Haimovitz performingBach's cello suites innight clubs,restaurants and other highly untraditional venues in a wide variety of towns and cities across the United States. This was followed in 2003 by Haimovitz'sAnthem tour, in which he brought a variety of American compositions to a similar variety of audiences, including his rendition ofJimi Hendrix's famous improvisational rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner."

In 2000, Haimovitz founded his own record label,Oxingale with^[5] composerLuna Pearl Woolf, which has releasedCD recordings of his own recital programs, as well as music performed by others. In 2010 this label expanded to include a music publishing branch, which features works commissioned, performed, and recorded by Haimovitz.^[6]

"Shuffle. Play.Listen", his 2-disc collaboration with pianistChristopher O'Riley in 2011, was hailed for its innovation in mixing togetherBernard Hermann film scores,Janácek, andCocteau Twins. "The idea behind it is to blast away at any and all categories...",^[7] wrote Richard Ginell of the L.A. Times.

From 1999 to 2004, Haimovitz was a faculty member at theUniversity of Massachusetts inAmherst, Massachusetts. Since 2004, he has taught at theSchulich School of Music ofMcGill University inMontreal as well as theDomaine Forget academy for the arts in ruralQuebec.

In June 2013, Haimovitz went on an international tour to Italy performing with the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra. He also recordedPhilip Glass' Cello Concerto No. 2 withDennis Russell Davies and theCincinnati Symphony; the concerto is a reworking of the film score ''Naqoyqatsi''.^[8]

From 2015 Oxingale andPENTATONE record label have joined forces and formed the PENTATONE Oxingale Series, re-releasing old albums - now also digitally available and distributed worldwide - and producing new ones. In 2015, Haimovitz released two recordings onPENTATONE using period instruments: the cello sonatas ofLudwig van Beethoven, with pianistChristopher O'Riley; and a second recording of Bach's cello suites (on Haimovitz's earlier traversal, recorded in 2000, he had used a modernized cello and bow).

• Russell, Anna (September 17, 2018)."Reunion". The Talk of the Town. The Musical Life.The New Yorker. Vol. 94, no. 28. p. 16.^[a]

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• "Redefining Success, Off the Beaten Track - Cellist Matt Haimovitz, Bringing Bach to the Bar Band Stage" - review by Richard Scheinin in "San Jose Mercury News, 4.20.2005
• Discography on Deutsche Grammophon
• BACH & friends Documentary
• Artist representation on National Public Radio

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