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Cello virtuoso Amit Peled, recently hailed by the American Record Guide as “having the flair of the young Rostropovich” is forging an international career of the highest caliber both as a soloist and as an enthusiastic teacher.

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Amit Peled has been featured guest artist in some of the world's major concert halls such as: Wigmore Hall, London; Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall, New York; Salle Gaveau, Paris; National Auditorium in Barcelona, Spain; Konzerthaus Berlin, Germany; and Tel Aviv's Man Auditorium, Israel. He has collaborated with the European Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Saarbrücken, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, London Soloists, Jerusalem Symphony, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Tel Aviv Soloists, Haifa Symphony, Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra, Velcea Philharmonic, Irving symphony, Hartford Symphony, Nashua Symphony, String Orchestra of the Rockies, to name few.

Highlights of Mr. Peled’s 2006/2007 season include solo appearances with the Israel Chamber Orchestra on their USA tour; the Ashland Symphony, Oregon; the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, Germany; the Chautauqua Symphony, USA; and the Academia Ars Musica. Moreover, Peled will launch a series of CDs and DVDs of the major repertoire for Cello under the CTM CLASSICS label, which released the first volume in January 2007. As an advocate of Israeli music, Mr. Peled has just recorded the Cello Concerto by Mark Kopytman with the Tel Aviv Soloists under the JMC label and will later in the season premier a concerto dedicated to him by composer Erel Paz with conductor Ilan Volkov.

Being one of the youngest cello professors in the United States, Peled joined the distinguished faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD in September 2003. Amit conducts intensive master classes at the Euro Arts Festival, Germany, the Heifetz Institute in the US, in Toledo Spain and at the Gotland Festival in Sweden.

Mr. Peled is a frequent participant at prestigious festivals such as the Marlboro Music Festival, Newport Music Festival, Schleswig Holstein Festival, Seattle Music Festival, Cape Cod Music Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Moselfestwochen, where he played all six Bach Suites; Ludwigsburger Festspiele, playing to raving reviews Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and Brahms’s Double Concerto in one evening; Strings in the Mountains, Four Seasons, Båstad, Prussia Cove, Millstatt Musikwochen and Kfar Blum.

Amit Peled performed with violinist Midori for the 1998 America Israel Cultural Foundation Gala at Lincoln Centre’s Alice Tully Hall and was a featured guest on the 2005 Gala as well. He performed for the Marlboro 50th Anniversary concerts in Washington and New York and his recordings can be heard frequently on the Israeli National Classical Music Radio & TV, NPR, WGBH Boston, WFMT Chicago, WQXR New York, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Deutschland Radio Berlin, Hessischer Rundfunk, Radio France and Swedish National Radio & TV.

Amit is plays a rare Andrea Guarneri Cello ca. 1689.