“The adventurous Ms. Beiser has been called the 'cello goddess,' which is not hyperbole: She summons from her instrument an emotional power so stirring that even the most stoic audience members risk turning into sobbing sacks of flesh.”
~The New York Times
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"You know from the start that Beiser, who is a magnificent cellist, is going to fill not just your ears but also take over your senses."
~The Los Angeles Times
“Cellist Maya Beiser finds no boundaries in music. In her TED talk, she recalls the intermingling of J.S. Bach's cello suites and the chanting of Muslim prayers from an Arab village near the Kibbutz in Israel where she grew up. She's equally comfortable navigating brand-new commissions from today's top composers or looping her cello into a wall of sound in rock standards by Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin.”
~ NPR
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“Ms. Beiser’s cello has a uniquely commanding tone. Like John Coltrane’s saxophone or Duane Allman’s guitar it is able to convey the sound of an urgently impassioned voice in many guises.”
~The Wall Street Journal
"Maya Beiser, the reigning queen of the avant-garde cello, has been pushing out the boundaries of her instrument for years, but in a rapturous, high-intensity performance on Saturday night at the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue, it was clear she’s now aiming at almost transcendental heights. Switching between electric and amplified acoustic cellos, using electronics to build huge and sweeping juggernauts of sound, Beiser knitted pop and overtly spiritual music together — and found a deep, almost devotional thread running through everything she played."
~The Washington Post
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As reviewed in
All About Jazz
American Theatre Magazine
Audiophile Audition
BBC
Billboard Magazin
Boston Examiner
The Boston Globe
Chicago Sun-Times
Creative Loafing
Detroit Free Press
El Mundo
The Financial Times
Flaunt Magazine
Flood Magazine
The Guardian
The Houston Chronicle
The Huffington Post
I Care If You Listen
The Jewish Chronicle
Le Monde
The Los Angeles Times
Music Web International
The New Yorker
New York Magazine
New York Post
The New York Times
NPR
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Radio New Zealand
Rolling Stone Magazine
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Classical Voice
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Slate Magazine
Strung Out
The Sunday Times
Sydney Morning Herald
Tablet Magazine
The Times
Van Magazine
Vulture
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Post