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Cellist Matt Haimovitz has been on an unusual tour bringing solo cello to non classical venues around the country, he has been selling out and leaving audiences standing at jazz/rock clubs, taverns and coffeehouses across the US and Canada.

From ABC's NIGHTLINE: "Who would think of moving classical music from the reverence of a symphony hall to a punk rock club? When we first discovered Matt Haimovitz, he was preparing to play New York's famed CBGB, an underground rock club that had never featured a classical artist. This was part of the Listening-Room Tour, Matt's effort to bring classical music to venues where people of his generation could listen to classical music in a relaxed setting."

"The musician making this unconventional tour is one of the world's most renowned young cellists. As a child, he was a protegee of Itzhak Perlman and a student of Leonard Rose. Once Rose needed someone to fill in for him at Carnegie Hall and the 13-year-old Matt Haimovitz stepped on stage. Now at the advanced age of 32, he runs the cello program at the University of Massachusetts. But it is his road act that caught our attention. Matt Haimovitz is a cellist who's been taking classical music into places where it is rarely heard." From NPR News, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED with Host Steve Inskeep

"Haimovitz is a major discovery." Chicago Sun Times

"I salute Mr. Haimovitz for work that is truly pathbreaking, in that he is forging entries to alternate outlets for the music he loves." New York Times

"Matt Haimovitz may be the coolest cellist of our time." The Boston Herald

Matt has been touring with a new CD entitled Goulash. "Bartok meets America"; From Bartok to Led Zeppelin's Kashmir, cellist Matt Haimovitz brings middle eastern and Romanian folk music to the club. This will be a tour and celebration of folk music as art music, Matt will be on the road with various collaborators from DJ Olive from NYC , Andy Simionescui Romanian violinist, Constantinople a Persian group specializing in middle eastern music, 3 award winning student cellists from McGill University in Montreal. Collaborators include, Pianist Jean Marchand, Guitarist John McLaughlin and others.

"In the midst of a 50-state tour supporting the album, the 35-year-old cellist is continuing to bring classical music to places it's rarely been heard, hoping to pick up a few converts along the way." The Boston Globe "It was some of the most moving and soulful playing heard by this listener in a very long time. The music seemed to pour out of his cello and wash over the huddled group....It is also an experiment that may be shedding light on how classical music can renew itself with audiences of the future" The New York Times