Amit Peled and Martin Labazevitch

Amit Peled, cello
Martin Labazevitch, piano

Program:
Grieg - Sonata for cello and piano
Kopytman - Kaddish 
Popper Hungarian Rhapsody

Internationally renowned cellist, conductor and pedagogue Amit Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting and virtuosic instrumentalists on the concert stage today. He has performed in many of the world’s most prestigious venues. Peled has released over a dozen recordings on the Naxos, Centaur, Delos, and CTM Classics labels.

He is a cello professor at the Peabody Institute and has performed in and presented master classes around the world, including at the Marlboro and Newport Music Festivals and the Heifetz International Music Summer Institute in the U.S., the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Germany, International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove in England, and Keshet Eilon in Israel.

Embracing the new online era, Peled established the Amit Peled Online Cello Academy, reaching out to hundreds of cellists all over the world. Peled is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Mount Vernon Virtuosi, former Music Director of CityMusic Cleveland and enjoys a growing international conducting career with orchestras all across the globe.

He is represented worldwide by CTM Classics.

Praised by critics for his lyricism, virtuosity and an intensity of performance, pianist Martin Labazevitch appeared in many concert halls and festivals across the globe.

Born in Poland, Mr. Labazevitch studied at the Odessa Conservatory in Ukraine and at the Manhattan School of Music. In 2019 he received Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Rome School of Music, Drama and Art in Washington D.C. His main teachers and mentors include Nina Svetlanova, Horacio Gutierrez, Dmitri Bashkirov, Bella Davidovich and Jorge Luis Prats. He has been a soloist with orchestras in Spain, Poland, Lithuania, Japan, and the U.S. His debut album release on the Delos label is the Chopin Concerto with the Beethoven Academy Orchestra, lead by Ewa Strusinska. Of the recording, Fanfare Magazine wrote: “His way of Chopin is fluid and convincing. He plays with a superb control of rubato and has the most beautiful way of melting a phrase.”

An avid chamber musician, he has collaborated with Isidore Cohen, Lukas Foss, Ruth Laredo, Andres Cardenes, Amit Peled, Ju-Young Baek, Michael Mermagen, as well as the Spokane and Vilnius String Quartets.

An enthusiastic educator, Mr Labazevitch teaches at the Levine School of Music in Washington D.C. He is co-founder of the Puerto Rico International Piano Festival and Artistic Director of the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Piano Competition and Chopin Piano Academy in Washington D.C. In 2022 Mr. Labazevitch co-founded The Paderewski Academy, a pioneer hybrid piano academy based in Zurich.

Mr. Labazevitch is a Steinway Artist.

Showtime: 8 pm ET/7 pm CT/6 pm MT/5 pm PT/11 pm GMT

Limited in-person seats: $25 / $10 full-time students with valid ID
Advance ticket sales end 1 hr. prior to showtime. Remaining tickets may be purchased at door.
In-person attendees receive a link to the recording to view for one week after the concert.

Streaming Cost is $15
The link will be revealed 15 minutes before the show
and will remain active for one week

Donations welcome