Maya Beiser Quotes
It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.
Beiser, Maya. Interview by Mike Ragogna. "A Conversation with Maya Beiser." HuffPost, 12 May 2010.
Maya Beiser is an American musician, cellist, performing artist and producer who lives in New York City. Beiser was raised on a kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentine father, and graduated from Yale University School of Music. She has been described by the Boston Globe as "a force of nature", "a cello goddess" by The New Yorker and "the reigning queen of the avant-garde cello" by The Washington Post. Beiser is a 2015 United States Artists Distinguished Music Fellow and the Inaugural Mellon Distinguished Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology.