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Maya Beiser Biography

Maya Beiser is an American musician, cellist, performing artist and producer who lives in New York City. Beiser was raised on a kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentine father, and graduated from Yale University School of Music. She has been described as "a force of nature", "a cello goddess" and "the reigning queen of the avant-garde cello". Beiser is a 2015 USA Distinguished Music Fellow and the Inaugural Mellon Distinguished Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology.

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From the 9th to the 15th centuries, the area which is now modern Spain was home to the greatest peaceful agglomeration of cultures ever known in the post-literate worldEven more remarkable than the flowering of art itself was the confluence of cultures that produced it: under the rule of Islam, Muslims, Jews and Christians lived and worked together in relative harmony.

Christian, Art, Home, Centuries, Jews, Under

I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.

Happens, Interested, Music, Our Lives, Relate

I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.

Cello, Creativity, Medium, Possibilities, Possibility, Want

A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music.

Done, Family, Reading, Research, Spain, Summer

I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.

Fascinated, Father, Galilee, Kibbutz, Sound, Village

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

Done, Nobody, Rebel, Sense, Wanted

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

Wonderful, Visceral, Music Is, Ultimately, Stimulating

I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact that it was big.

Cello, Facts, Kids, Rebel, Small

I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just wanted to try and expand my vocabulary and bring that different kind of music to my audience.

Different, Expand, Music, Tradition, Trying, Vocabulary

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