Martin Labazevitch (left), Amit Peled (right)

The Amit Peled Cello Gang
Martin Labazevitch, piano

Program:

Florence Price: Andante for Cello Ensemble, Arranged for our CelloGang (United States)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Air (Germany / Europe)

Katherine Hu: “Andai”, Written for our CelloGang (China)

Paul Desenne: Pájaro Guaracha (Venezuela)

Sharon Farber: Bestemming for Cello and Narrator (Jewish tradition / Netherlands)

Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody, Arranged for the CelloGang (United Kingdom)

Scott Joplin: The Entertainer (United States)

The Amit Peled Cello Gang is composed of students from Peled’s studio at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where he has taught since 2003. The students range in age from undergraduate freshmen to second-year master’s students, and the group comes together often to perform works written or arranged for cello ensemble.

This unique ensemble has performed recently at the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, with the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, as a resident ensemble in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and all across Maryland, the gang’s home state.