Falmouth Chamber Players Orchestra Presents Cellist Amit Peled

World-renowned cellist Amit Peled will perform Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major with the Falmouth Chamber Players Orchestra on Saturday, November 5, and Sunday, November 6, at the First Congregational Church at 68 Main Street in Falmouth. William Drury conducts.

Amit Peled has been acclaimed as one of the most exciting and virtuosic instrumentalists on the concert stage today. He has performed on concert stages all over the world and has released over a dozen recordings. Raised on a kibbutz in Israel, Amit Peled is also a professor at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University where he has taught since 2003. From 2012 through 2018, Peled performed on the Pablo Casals 1733 Goffriller cello, which was loaned to him personally by Casals' widow, Marta Casals Istomin.

Peled has strong ties to the Cape. Cellist Bernard Greenhouse, who lived in Wellfleet, was his "cello idol." When Greenhouse heard him play, he was so impressed he offered to teach Peled for free. Peled has returned to the Cape to play concerts in Greenhouse's honor, and, every summer, performs with either the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival or the Meeting House Chamber Music Festival. He has also performed with the Cape Symphony. This will be his first performance in Falmouth since his early performances to intimate audiences at Johnson String Instrument.

The FCPO will also perform Mozart's Overture to the Abduction from the Seraglio and Schuber's Symphony No. 8 in B minor ("The Unfinished Symphony.")