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World Cellist Ian Maksin | Cd Release | Sempre | A New Dimension at Inverness Ridge

Courtesy of Evvnt | Posted on January 21, 2020

Where

Inverness Ridge
59 Inverness Way
Inverness, CA
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When

Fri, February 7, 2020
7:00 pm

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Trained at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory and the Manhattan School of Music, Maksin has held positions as the principal of the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas and has been mentored by Mstislav Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, and other renowned cellists. In addition to being known as a classical artist, Maksin has collaborated with artists in a variety of musical genres, including jazz, blues, flamenco, rock, R&B and world music. He has performed and recorded with such artists as Andrea Bocelli, P. Diddy, Snoop Dog, Gloria Estefan, Sting and Barry Gibb.

Breaking boundaries both musical and geographical, cellist, composer, and multilingual vocalist Ian Maksin has created and developed his own unique style by blending elements of different genres in a new way using his cello as the main unifying force. He sings in more than20 languages: Russian, Ukrainian, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Yiddish, Ladino ( the language of the Sephardic Jews of Spain), Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian, Arabic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Belarusian, Mongolian, Buryat, Georgian, Mongolian and Macedonian. Ian is equally brilliant in every genre in its pure form, from classical to jazz and blues, and Latin to Balkan and Middle Eastern music. His passionate interpretations and soulful sound have generated a contagious universal and ever-growing appeal to diverse audiences across the world....

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