With its elements of music, singing, theater, dance and video, “Elsewhere” is described by its creator, cellist extraordinaire Maya Beiser, as a “CelloOpera.” It’s a collaboration of Beiser and ...

Beiser gives some of her favorite rock and blues numbers a modern cello workover on her new album, Uncovered. Maya Beiser Shreds The Cello Through the decades, classical cellists have studied the ...

Cellist Maya Beiser has reimagined Terry Riley's pioneering work In C, which helped launch the style of music called minimalism. A word on how In C is built: Its blueprint is a single page containing ...

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.

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 ...

Cellist Maya Beiser returned to Chicago this weekend with “Almost Human,” a follow-up to her 2005 appearance at Ravinia, “World to Come.” This grouping of works under the umbrella of a pithy moniker ...

Through the decades, classical cellists have studied the masters: Pablo Casals, Mstislav Rostropovich, Jacqueline du Pre. AC/DC doesn't quite make that list — but cellist Maya Beiser loves playing ...