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Kivie Cahn-Lipman, cello | Indianapolis Early Music

"Eloquent performances...fresh thinking...energy and zeal." - The Strad

Kivie Cahn-Lipman holds degrees from Oberlin and Juilliard and is a DMA candidate at the College Conservatory of Music. He is the founding cellist of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) with which he performs regularly to international critical acclaim.

Cahn-Lipman is also gambist, lironist, and director of ACRONYM, a new period-instrument ensemble. An avid performer of contemporary music, Kivie has played more than 500 solo and small ensemble world premieres. He has recorded for the Naxos, New Focus, Bridge, New Amsterdam, Tzadik, ECM, Kairos, Mode, Tundra, Starkland, Olde Focus, and Nonesuch labels. As a chamber musician, Kivie has performed frequently in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and other major venues on three continents, as well as live on WNYC 93.9 in New York and WFMT 98.7 in Chicago. His 2014 recording of the complete Cello Suites of J.S. Bach was praised for its "eloquent performances," "fresh thinking," and "energy and zeal" (The Strad).

Kivie taught cello in a full-time position shared between Smith College and Mount Holyoke College from 2005-2012 and has been a faculty member at the Cortona Sessions for New Music since 2012. www.acronymensemble.com/about

Program

A Concert for Spring
Kivie Cahn-Lipman and friends

Mandy Wolman and Francis Liu, violins
Loren Ludwig, viola da gamba
Kivie Cahn-Lipman, viola da gamba and violoncello
Gabriel Shuford, harpsichord
and special guest Alison Edberg Nyquist, violin

Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
Suite 4 in D Minor from "Journal du Printemps"
Ouverture /Entrée /Rondeau /Gavotte /Menuet /Passacaille

Christopher Simpson
"Spring" from "The Seasons"
Fantasia / Aire / Galliard

J.S. Bach Suite No. 1 for cello
(selected movements)

Antonio Bertali: Sonata in d
Giovanni Valentini: Sonata in g

Vivaldi
"Spring" from "The Four Seasons"
Allegro
Largo e pianissimo sempre
Allegro pastorale