The New York Times: 2024 Best Classical Albums
"Maya Beiser x Terry Riley: In C" has been recognized as one of the Best Classical Albums of 2024 by The New York Times
NPR's 10 Best Classical Albums of 2024
"It's pretty gusty to take on a revered, pioneering piece of minimalism designed for acouple dozen people to play and reduce it to only a...
The Boston Globe: 10 Best Classical Albums of 2024
"One of the freshest and most satisfying version (of In C) I have ever heard."
-The Boston Globe
NPR Music's 50 Best Albums of 2024
Maya Beiser's latest album, titled Maya Beiser x Terry Riley: In C, has garnered significant acclaim and recognition, being named one of...
The New York Times reviews Maya Beiser x Terry Riley: In C
"The intrepid cellist Maya Beiser has reimagined the piece ingeniously. The result is transfixing….moody and introspective, but also, by...
“mesmerizing and graceful…supremely exhilarating…” NPR All Things Considered Album Review
“This album is a musical journey for mind and body — both a stimulant and a sedative. It offers many engaging stopovers, from an oasis of...
NPR reviews Maya Beiser x Terry Riley: In C Features "In C 3" on their "running list of the year's best songs".
"Cellist Maya Beiser offers a remarkable interpretation of Terry Riley's In C on her latest album" Armed with a looping machine and a...
Maya Beiser x Philip Glass Live in Los Angeles, featuring cellists Jeffrey Ziegler, Andrew Yee, Christine Lamprea and Laura Metcalf
Sat, Mar 30, 2024 8 pm Center for the Art of Performance UCLA The Nimoy BUY TICKETS “A fresh and absorbing approach to the music of...
Maya Beiser Releases 'TERRY RILEY: IN C'
On April 5, 2024, cellist and producer Maya Beiser will release her newest solo album, Maya Beiser x Terry Riley: In C, on her Islandia...
Maya Beiser's Tidal Magazine Interview: ‘Bach is where everything started’
The fearless cellist on Infinite Bach, Bowie’s everlasting influence and the art of recording falling rain. "The cellist Maya Beiser has...
Van Magazine reviews Maya Beiser's "InfInIte Bach" album
"If anyone would give serious thought to what they had to say in recording a work like Bach’s Cello Suites, it would be Maya Beiser…"...
Maya Beiser features on All Things Considered with Arun Rath
"There are many brilliant cello virtuosos in the world, but Maya Beiser is among the most exciting. Playing across genres and...
Review of InfInIte Bach in The Arts Fuse magazine
"These are the Bach Cello Suites like you’ve never heard them before." The Arts Fuse magazine
Maya Beiser's interview on Northeast Public Radio
Listen to Maya Beiser speak about InfInIte Bach with Northeast Public Radio's "The Roundtable" Listen to the entire interview here....
Islandia Music Records to release Maya Beiser: InfInIte Bach on May 26, 2023
The solo cello suites of J.S. Bach reimagined in a Luminous Spatial Audio Recording. In InfInIte Bach, Maya Beiser elevates our sensory...
Flaunt Magazine Features Maya Beiser
"Expansive and ethereal, temporal yet spiritual, shining in shadow, Bach’s music receives a contemporary redux ripe with nuance... "...
Maya Beiser x Philip Glass
“Glowing transparency” ~ The Guardian "Haunting sonic sculptures. A spellbinding journey that's full of atmosphere" ~ AppleMusic review...
New Single "Ludwig Van BadGuy" available Oct. 23rd!
Available for pre-order: https://Naxos.lnk.to/LudwigVanBadGuyEL During the first week of COVID quarantine, in her New York City house,...
Watch Aura Blackstar: Bowie Cello Symphonic LIVE! Now available for download
Can't get enough of "Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar"? Then you won't want to miss "Aura Blackstar: Bowie Cello Symphonic LIVE", a...
Happy Release Day!
"Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar" is available now! We also have limited quantities of vinyl and CDs in our brand new store. We want to...
American Songwriter Review
"...for those ready for something truly unique that will push your ears into territory they likely haven’t been exposed to before, it’s a...
Billboard Feature
Thank you to Billboard for the feature and lovely coverage of "Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar"! Read the full article HERE
WSJ Review of "Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar"
"Ms. Beiser’s cello has a uniquely commanding tone. Like John Coltrane’s saxophone or Duane Allman’s guitar it is able to convey the...
New Album: "Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar" now available for pre-order!
Release Date: Jan. 10, 2020 Pre-order here On January 8, 2016, his 69th birthday, David Bowie released “Blackstar”. He died two days...
Announcing Aura Blackstar: Bowie Cello Symphonic at The Winter Garden at Brookfield Place
Friday, January 10th, 2020 Winter Garden at Brookfield Place Performance is free and open to the public Maya Beiser will debut her...
The Kennedy Center to present THE DAY Dec. 6 and 7, 2019
Maya Beiser, Wendy Whelan, Lucinda Childs & David Lang: The Day Tickets Friday, December 6, 2019 Saturday, December 7, 2019 “A gut...
Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar
"Maya Beiser Reimagines Bowie's 'Blackstar' As Gorgeous Cello Piece" - Billboard Magazine "For those ready for something truly unique...
“searching, haunting and very, very beautiful “ The Los Angeles Times reviews THE DAY: Maya Beiser+
“You know from the start that Beiser, who is a magnificent cellist, is going to fill not just your ears but also take over your senses.” ...
THE DAY
Maya Beiser + Wendy Whelan + Lucinda Childs + David Lang
All Vows
All Vows All Vows explores the dichotomy between the physical, external world we inhabit and the inner landscape of our secret selves. It...
Elsewhere: a cello opera
Elsewhere From what began as a unique collaboration between cellist Maya Beiser and theater director Robert Woodruff comes ELSEWHERE, a...
Room 35
Room 35 Room 35 is an “Installation Concerto” that illustrates the living relationship between music and visual art. A collaboration...
Linked Verse
Linked Verse Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, composer Maya Beiser, cello Ko Ishikawa, shō LINKED VERSE is an evening-length concerto for cello,...
World to Come
World to Come Evocative, theatrical and spiritual, WORLD TO COME is Maya Beiser’s multimedia solo concert, featuring music written for...
Announcing new album delugEON An elegiac treatise on a vanishing world OUT AUGUST 30TH on new imprin
Maya Beiser releases new album; delugEON. now available for pre-order
The New York Times announces the premiere of THE DAY at the 2019 Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
Maya Beiser's latest multidisciplinary performance work, THE DAY is a collaboration with dancer Wendy Whelan, and choreographer Lucinda...
August 5: Maya to make her BBC Proms solo debut performing Mark-Anthony Turnage's cello concerto
Mark-Anthony Turnage's cello concerto was written for and named after Maya and premiered with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and conductor...
June 9: Maya premieres "Bowie Symphonic: The Blackstar Project" at New York's Central
From The New York Times: "The adventurous Ms. Beiser has been called the “cello goddess,” which is not hyperbole: She summons from her...
May 10-13: SPINNING from cellist Maya Beiser, composer Julia Wolfe, visual artist Laurie Olinder at
On May 10-13, Peak Performances at Montclair University presents Spinning, a new evening-length collaboration from composer Julia Wolfe,...
Maya Beiser and David Lang release new album "the day" on Cantaloupe Music
Maya Beiser and David Lang's new album, the day, is out January 26, 2018 on Cantaloupe Music. The album features Lang’s new work for...
MIT Names Cellist Maya Beiser Inaugural Mellon Distinguished Visiting Artist at the Center for Art,
As the inaugural Mellon Distinguished Visiting Artist this year, Maya Beiser will collaborate with MIT faculty and students to...
Maya featured in The Guardian
Maya talks about art, fashion, not conforming to predictable molds and her concert at London’s Kings Place on February 10. Read full...
Washington Post reviews TranceClassical: "A Cellist's Solo Trance"
Maya received a raving review from the Washington Post, which described how "amid all the electronics, 'TranceClassical' takes on...
Maya performs at (Le) Poisson Rouge September 13th!
Maya performs at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City this September. The show will feature music off her new album TranceClassical which...
TranceClassical is Q2 Music Album of the Week
Maya's latest album TranceClassical is Album of the Week on Q2 Music. Reviewed by WQXR's Zoë Madonna, TranceClassical is described as...
TranceClassical Reviewed by The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal recently published a stellar review of Maya's latest album TranceClassical, describing it as "a philosophical...
TranceClassical hits #1 on Apple Music
Maya's latest album TranceClassical premiered on Apple Music last Friday. The album hit number one on iTunes Classical charts, along with...