AMIT PELED

Recently hailed by the American Record Guide as “having the flair of the young Rostropovich” Israeli cellist Amit Peled is forging an international career of the highest caliber both as a soloist, chamber musician and an enthusiastic teacher.
Mr. Peled has been featured guest artist in some of the world's major concert halls such as: Wigmore Hall, London, Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall, NY City, Salle Gaveau, Paris, National Auditorium in Barcelona, Konzerthaus, Berlin and Tel Aviv's Man Auditorium. Among the orchestras that he has collaborated with are the European Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Saarbrucken, Orquestra Sinfonica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, London Soloists, Jerusalem symphony, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Tel Aviv Soloists, Haifa symphony, Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra, Velcea Philharmonic, Hartford Symphony, Nashua Symphony, String Orchestra of the Rockies to name few.

Highlights of the 2007/08 season include solo appearances with more then 20 different orchestras exploring the majority of the cello concerto repertoire. Moreover, Peled will record a CD with the String Orchestra of the Rockies titled "The Jewish Soul" which will be released in April of 2008, and will continue his Beethoven Sonata Cycle with pianist Alon Goldstein in Israel, USA, Spain and Germany. As an advocate of Israeli music, Mr. Peled has just released the Cello Concerto by Mark Kopytman with the Tel Aviv Soloists under the JMC label and premiered a concerto dedicated to him by Israeli composer Erel Paz with conductor Ilan Volkov.
Being one of the youngest cello professors in the United States, Peled joined the distinguished faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in September 2003. He was recently the featured Artist on the prestigious Internet Cello Society website, and this summer he will conduct intensive master classes at the Euro Arts Festival, Germany, the Heifetz Institute in the US, in Toledo Spain and at the Gotland Festival in Sweden.

Peled is a frequent participant at prestigious festivals such as the Marlboro Music Festival, Newport Music Festival, Schleswig – Holstein Festival, Seattle Music Festival, Cape Cod Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Moselfestwoche, Strings in the Mountains, Four Seasons, Båstad, Prussia Cove, Millstatt Musikwochen and Kfar Blum.

Amit's many recordings can be heard frequently on the Israeli National Classical Music Radio & TV, NPR, WGBH Boston, WFMT Chicago, WQXR NY, Saarlandischer Rundfunk, Deutschland Radio Berlin, Hessischer Rundfunk, Radio France and Swedish National Radio & TV.

Amit is playing a rare Andrea Guarneri Cello ca. 1689.