Don't think of a concert by Maya Beiser as a cello recital. Yes, she plays the instrument with fervent panache. But the Israeli-born musician takes the cello well beyond traditional boundaries. Beiser ...

Cellist Maya Beiser reveals her instrument’s vast capabilities in “Time Loops,” the album of mystical works written for her by composer and pianist Michael Harrison. NPR placed it among the top 10 ...

This radical interpretation of David Bowie’s final album, led by Maya Beiser’s cello and backed with full orchestration, seems at first glance to be a dubious concept. It pays tribute to one of this ...

The sound of the cello has been firmly entrenched in Western classical music for hundreds of years, but its roots trace back to the Byzantine lyra and the Arab rabab from the ninth and 10th centuries.

Cellist Maya Beiser defies the stereotype of a classically trained, pitch-perfect, Yale-educated musician. She wants her career to resemble that of a pop star rather than a classical artist. She cites ...

Maya Beiser has revealed “Ziggy Stardust,” a bonus track from her highly anticipated album Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar (Islandia Music Records) – the cellist’s reimagining of David Bowie’s final ...

“It was a typical warm and luminous Mediterranean winter day,” Maya Beiser recalls. “We were driving through the winding road alongside the Dead Sea, deep in the Judea dessert. Occasionally, the ...

Cellist Maya Beiser, a celebrated master of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, David Lang, Arvo Pärt, Steve Reich and other composers, is a surprisingly natural fit for the music of David Bowie. Ms.