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  • Maya Beiser

As a founding member of New York’s Bang on a Can All-Stars cellist Maya Beiser has long embodied a broad-minded aesthetic that routinely travels well outside the confines of contemporary classical music. She’s a technically gifted player with a wild imagination, and tomorrow night she rolls through town for a rare local performance at Northwestern University’s Pick-Staiger Hall at 7:30 PM. She studied under Isaac Stern, worked with composer James Newton Howard on numerous film scores (including M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth), and worked with folks as diverse as Brian Eno, Louis Andriessen, and Mark O’Connor. The program mirrors—to whatever extent made possible by a single performance—her diverse musical interests.

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