Rafael Popper-Keizer
cello
Hailed by the New York Times as "imaginative
and eloquent"; praised by the Boston Globe
for his "dazzling dispatch of every bravura challenge"
and his "melodic phrasing of melting tenderness,"
cellist Rafael Popper-Keizer has established himself definitively
as an artist both supremely accomplished and versatile. As
one of Boston's most eminent freelance musicians, his career
routinely encompasses everything from continuo in 17th-century
motets to solo recitals to avant-garde improvisation to indie
rock. Mr. Popper-Keizer's formative years were spent at the
New England Conservatory, where he studied with Laurence Lesser;
and at the Tanglewood Music Center, where he performed to
great acclaim from Mstislav Rostropovich and Joel Krosnick,
and had the opportunity to understudy for Yo-Yo Ma in open
rehearsals of Don Quixote with Seiji Ozawa. Mr. Popper-Keizer
is the principal cellist of the Boston Philharmonic and the
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and has made appearances
as guest principal with innumerable ensembles throughout New
England. He appears regularly as a chamber musician with Emmanuel
Music, the Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Winsor Music, Monadnock
Music, and the Ibis Camerata, and has enjoyed guest appearances
with the Fromm Chamber Players, the Boston Trio, Firebird
Ensemble, Walden Chamber Players, Boston Musica Viva, and
John Harbison's Token Creek Festival, among others. Labels
for which Mr. Popper-Keizer has recorded include Albany, Arsis,
Helicon, Musical Heritage Society, Intrada, and Zimbel; he
is also the solo cellist on the BOSE demo CD. Upcoming solo
releases include Robert Erickson's Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra,
Yehudi Wyner's De Novo, and Mark Kuss' Concerto for Cello
and Orchestra.
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