Ian Maksin: Cello for Peace Tour

Arts + Literature Laboratory welcomes internationally acclaimed cellist and composer Ian Maksin for his Cello for Peace Tour on Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 7:00pm. A portion of the proceeds from ticket and CD sales will be donated to humanitarian relief funds that help civilians in areas affected by the war in Ukraine.

Special advance reserved seating in the first two rows will be $45.00.
General admission advance $35.00, ALL Members $30.00, Student with ID $21.00
Tickets available online at Brown Paper Tickets until 2 hours before the show. Remaining tickets $35 general admission for everyone at the door.

When words fail, music continues to speak. In light of recent world events, Ian Maksin has decided to continue his Cello for Peace Tour. In these concerts he will perform music from his most recent release, Amor Renatus (Rebirth of Love) as well as love songs in Arabic and Hebrew, Farsi and Ladino, Turkish and Armenian, Ukranian and Russian in an attempt to reunite the world and create peace through music.

Ian Maksin

Russian-born Chicago-based cellist and composer Ian Maksin has gained international recognition for his beautiful tone, his own unique innovative style of playing the instrument and for taking the cello well outside its conventional role. As a soloist, he gives more than two hundred public performances annually in North and South America, Europe and Asia.

Born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, Maksin began playing the cello at age six at the Special School for Gifted Children of the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. At age seventeen he came to the United States to attend the Manhattan School of Music in New York City and later became the principal cellist of the New World Symphony, America’s one-of-a-kind training orchestra under direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. During that time he had an opportunity to receive personal mentorship from such artists as Lynn Harrell, Mstislav Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, Bernard Greenhouse, and many others.

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