“With virtuoso chops, rock-star charisma, and an appetite for pushing her instrument to the edge of avant-garde adventurousness, Maya Beiser is the post-modern diva of the cello… imaginative… hip modern music from around the world… Eve Belgarian’s luminous, 40-minute “I Am Writing to You From a Far Off Country,” a collaboration with Beiser for cello, vocals, electronics, and a surrealistic text by Henri Michaux… haunting atmospheric vocals, keening modal melodies from Beiser’s cello, and catchy rhythmic grooves that suggest a place exotic yet somehow familiar…. just listen with closed eyes and enjoy the journey.”
-The Boston Globe

“Maya Beiser is an exceptionally gifted cellist. Her musicality, technique, and commitment show in every note she plays on this fine disc.”
-Sequenza21.com

“Stunning tour de force…hauntingly evocative and emotionally unnverving.”
-All Music Guide

“World To Come” finds cellist Maya Beiser at the height of her risk-taking and boundary-crossing ambition. She defies not only cultural differences but also conventional oppositions of artist and medium, music and visual art, live performance and recorded material.”
-Elusive Disc.com

“Beiser’s Ability to imbue tremendous emotion into any chosen composition, underscores the album’s central premise: cultural empathy in a post-9/11 landscape.”
-Pause Record CD reviews

“It’s crossover not by design, or by compromise, but simply because this music’s time has come…”
-CD Now.com

“The most notable new disc in the Kronos tradition…”
-Billboard Magazine

“Top 10 CD’s of the year”
-Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times

“Fascinating new album, world music – melded with the cutting-edge”
-New York Times.com [CD Pick of the week]

“The virtuosic queen of the post-minimalist cello, carves out new turf in solo performance. A web of taped interplay, electronic processing and vocalizing overlays the sound of her cello to create a sensuous, swirling fog of sound… a startlingly immediate and passionate performance.”
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE