David Bowie Blackstar Maya Beiser Evan Ziporyn Cello Symphonic 

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On January 8, 2016, his 69th birthday, David Bowie released “Blackstar”. He died two days later on January 10th. “Blackstar” was Bowie’s parting gift to the world, a self-eulogy, hinting at the sacred and reveling in the profane. Blackstar is a concept album, but the concept is unnamed, or is the Un-nameable itself: facing death, living in its shadow.

In this new album “Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar”, visionary cellist Maya Beiser and composer/conductor Evan Ziporyn honor Bowie and his influence. Immersing themselves in this astounding music, living inside it, embodying it. Bowie’s 4-octave vocal range matches the cello almost exactly, making it the perfect protagonist instrument. Beiser and Ziporyn re-create the entire album as a cello concerto, arranged by Ziporyn for Beiser as soloist.

Accompanied by the Ambient Orchestra, Maya Beiser transforms her cello; A vocalist one moment, a lead guitarist the next, she evokes David Bowie’s spirit while never ceasing to be herself. Even in these instrumental versions, the words and their meaning hover over the music, despite their absence, much like the ‘spirit’ figure in the first song: gone, but with a trace.  

In 2017, visionary cellist Maya Beiser, and innovative composer/conductor Evan Ziporyn, debuted a blockbuster tribute to the legendary Rock icon David Bowie, transforming his final album, Blackstar, into a cello concerto for Maya Beiser, backed by the The Ambient Orchestra. Following the acclaim of that performance at MIT Kresge Auditorium, they set out to tour the work and have performed Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar around the world. On January 10, 2020, the full album was released on Islandia Music Records, garnering rave reviews and topping the classical music charts.

Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar is a breathtaking new version of David Bowie's Blackstar reimagined for solo cello and orchestra. The hour long work has been performed to great acclaim at major venues in Washington D.C., Boston MA, Barcelona, New York City's Central Park SummerStage and Brookfield Place, Austin TX, Palo Alto CA, Burlington VT, and Adelaide, Australia, among others. The Boston Globe recently described Beiser as

“a force of nature,” and wrote of the performance of Blackstar in Boston, “The orchestra’s approach took advantage of the rich, jazz-infused harmonic palette of ‘Blackstar.’ As the rest of the strings rose up in deep menace and then flitted away like shadows, Beiser’s cello replaced the vocals of ‘Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)’ with a shivering panic. . . ‘Lazarus’ reached further down into the grave and further up toward the stars all at once.” Describing the performance at L'audatori in Barcelona as "rich and adventurous", El Mundo further reports how it "easily and authentically connected high culture with popular culture" and proclaims: "It has probably been one of the best box offices in the L’auditori Barcelona all season.”

Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar represents the first time Bowie's final album is being performed live. For Beiser and Ziporyn, this ambitious project is an homage to the artist, who died in January 2016 two days after the album released. “To me and my generation, Bowie was a model for what it meant to be an artist or creative person,” Ziporyn explains. Beiser adds, “Bowie was so versatile, always exploring and evolving as an artist. He never settled for the easy path. And he himself, as a person, was the totality of his art.”

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Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Islandia Music, Inc.
• Copyright (c) – Islandia Music, Inc.
• Recorded At – Gardner Museum
• Recorded At – Area 52 Studio
• Mixed At – Area 52 Studio
• Mastered At – Masterdisk

Credits

• Art Direction – Denise Burt
• Cello – Maya Beiser
• Conductor – Evan Ziporyn
• Engineer – Dave Cook
• Executive-Producer – Maya Beiser
• Liner Notes – Evan Ziporyn
• Management – Emily Duncan
• Mastered By – Scott Hull (2)
• Mixed By – Dave Cook
• Orchestra – Ambient Orchestra
• Producer – Evan Ziporyn, Maya Beiser