The young cellist Cicely Parnas grew up listening to recordings of her celebrated cellist grandfather Leslie, and there’s little doubt that aural education has paid off. Cicely Parnas, now 23, gave a recital Thursday night at the Eissey Campus Theatre in Palm Beach Gardens, and in everything she played on her program, which consisted of sonatas by Barber, Brahms and Ravel, she … [Read more...]
Cellist Maksin, pianist Gogova show wide range at St. Paul’s
The cellist Ian Maksin first became well-known to South Florida audiences as the original cellist of the Delray String Quartet and principal cellist of the New World Symphony and Atlantic Classical Orchestra before he left the area for Chicago and new opportunities. The Russian-born Maksin returned Sunday afternoon for a recital with his duo partner, the Bulgarian pianist Ani … [Read more...]
Cellist Peled gives exceptional tribute to Casals at PB Symphony
I have loved the sound of the cello since I heard a broadcast of Pablo Casals playing from the festival he founded in Puerto Rico. Subsequently I heard Sir John Barbirolli practicing the cello through an open window: we were neighbors in Manchester, England. At London’s Royal Festival Hall I was close enough to see every gesture of Jacqueline Du Pré, the day she rocketed to … [Read more...]
Cellist to walk Camino de Santiago on pilgrimage for Bach
One of Dane Johansen’s paternal ancestors helped oversee the transition of Alaska from czarist Russia to the United States in the late 19th century, and having grown up in Fairbanks as a sixth-generation resident of the Last Frontier, Johansen has been looking for a way to marry his love and knowledge of the outdoors with his career as a cellist. He appears to have found it: … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Oct. 22-24
Art: The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale received a major bequest almost 20 years ago from Ira Glackens, who at his death in 1991 left the estate of his father, William Glackens, to the museum. This has formed the basis of a major collection of work by a group of American painters known as The Eight, who in addition to Glackens includes George Luks, Maurice Prendergast and Robert … [Read more...]
Cellist Gabetta a standout at Detroit SO concert
If Sol Gabetta had done nothing else besides come out and play her concerto, the young Argentine cellist might have attracted additional attention for the balletic, kinetic way she moved behind her cello, or the way she smiled and nodded her head along with the music during the moments she wasn’t playing. But Gabetta also came out and did a fascinating encore, and with that, … [Read more...]
Cellist deMaine’s Beethoven survey exciting, important
One of the benefits of a complete-works concert series is that a composer's achievement can be measured not only in a specific genre but against itself. But getting a good assessment is only possible if the pieces are played well enough for the performers almost to drop away and leave the music standing alone, alive and independent, making its own proud representation. In … [Read more...]
Cellist deMaine to play all Beethoven’s cello works in two Boca concerts
The cultural-event marathon is one of the most absorbing pleasures in the world of the arts, a chance for fans of a genre or a specific body of work to immerse themselves and give themselves wholly over to the featured creations. Pianists have milestones such as the complete Well-Tempered Clavier of Bach or all 32 of the Beethoven sonatas, for instance, and cellists also have … [Read more...]