Amit Peled

Internationally acclaimed cellist, conductor, and pedagogue Amit Peled is recognized as one of today’s most exciting and virtuosic performers. He has performed on many of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, including Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Salle Gaveau in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, Seoul Arts Center in Korea, and the Konzerthaus in Berlin, Germany.

Peled’s extensive discography includes more than twenty CD recordings, among them all the Bach suites using the legendary cello of Pablo Casals, on the Naxos, Centaur, Delos, and CTM Classics labels. A distinguished professor of cello at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, he has also presented master classes and cello workshops all across the globe.