World-Renowned Cellist Performs At Benjamin
Even if you’re tired, you have to play. That’s the advice Israeli cellist Amit Peled gives to Benjamin strings students during a recent trip to campus. Peled, acclaimed as a profound instrumentalist, started out as a basketball player.
“I love basketball. You can be a cool kid who plays sports but also plays music,” Peled says. Standing at 6’5, Peled has been called “larger than life” while playing his cello.
Benjamin students spent the afternoon with the soloist who has played in the world’s major concert halls including Carnegie, Alice Tully and Wigmore Hall. Peled led music teacher Andrew Winters strings class through a series of instrumental pieces, pausing to joke and interact with the students. Music, Peled says, should be fun.
“Not boring. Boring doesn’t exist. If you do boring, I stop playing,” Peled says to sixth grader Eric Levine who he performed a duet with.
The strings class then travelled to the Barker Performing Arts Center where Peled performed a concert for the entire middle school. The father of three, who served in the Israeli army and calls Baltimore home, says as soon as he packs up his cello after Sunday’s Palm Beach Symphony concert at Benjamin Hall, he will be headed abroad to Israel, London and Istanbul, all in rapid succession. Travel, he says, is very expensive: the cello gets its own airplane ticket.
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