Projects
A MOVEABLE FEAST: The Primavera Project
A momentous and diverse series of 81 commissions – inspired by Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera (c.1480) and Charline von Heyl’s Primavera 2020 – woven with Preludes from Bach’s Solo Cello Suites, curated collaboratively by Mr. Haimovitz and Director Jeffrianne Young to engage a variety of museum, art gallery, installation, and architectural sites through an interactive, mobile concert experience.
Jacqueline, the Opera
Multi-DORA AWARD nominated Jacqueline by composer Luna Pearl Woolf and librettist Royce Vavrek is a powerful opera for cello and soprano, exploring the talent and tragedy of iconic cellist Jacqueline du Pré. Brought to life by two contemporary virtuosi, soprano Marnie Breckenridge plays Jacqueline, and former du Pré protégé and cellist Matt Haimovitz plays her constant companion, her cello.
Featured Concerto: The Hartmann Cello Concerto Op. 57
Lost to audiences for 70 years, in 2023, Mr. Haimovitz, along with Leipzig’s MDR and Maestro Dennis Russell Davies, make available the first commercial recording (on the PENTATONE Oxingale Series) of Ukrainian-born composer Thomas de Hartmann’s melodically inspired and soaring Cello Concerto Op. 57. Mr. Haimovitz is advocating this important addition to the cello concerto canon.
The BACH Dialogues: O’Riley/Haimovitz
With their forthcoming collaboration focusing on J.S. Bach’s Sonatas for Viola da Gamba, O’Riley and Haimovitz realize a dream to enter into Bach’s Platonic timbral world. Their exploration of instruments of Bach’s time has wrought new and unique insights resulting in unprecedented freedom and expressivity, making The BACH Dialogues an inevitable and exciting new chapter in their long-standing collaboration.
AKOKA : Reframing Messaien’s Quartet for the End of Time
Cellist Cellist Matt Haimovitz, clarinetist David Krakauer, and beat writer Socalled come together to reframe Olivier Messiaen’s WWII prisoner-of-war camp work, the Quartet for the End of Time, from the perspective of the original clarinetist, Henri Akoka, who was Jewish.