Michael Haber and Friends, 1996
, Stan Hywet Hall, Akron, Ohio
Lev Polyakin, Takako Masame, violins
Alan Bodman, viola
Michael Haber, cello
Scott Haigh, bass
Allegro
Pastorale
Finale
Cellist Michael Haber is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brandeis University and did graduate work at Harvard and Indiana University. His cello teachers were Janos Starker, Mihaly Virizlay and Gregor Piatigorsky. He is a former member of The Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell, the Casals Festival Orchestra under Pablo Casals and was the principal cellist of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra. As cellist of the Composers Quartet, in residence at Columbia University, he toured and recorded internationally, as he did with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. For more than 20 years, he was the cellist of The Gabrielli Trio. Mr Haber has been on the cello and chamber music faculties of Oberlin College, The Eastman School of Music, the Indiana University School of Music, The New England Conservatory, Boston University, The University of Akron and also taught and performed at many summer music schools and festivals, including Aspen, Marlboro and Yellow Barn. For ten years he was a regular coach for the musicians of The New World Symphony in Miami Beach. He has given master classes in universities all over the USA and in Australia, New Zealand, Egypt and Switzerland. Among the comments for Mr Haber’s performances, the New York Times spoke of the “ lyricism and perfection” of his playing, the London Times called him “ a romantic cellist “ and The Cleveland Plain Dealer “ a superb musician.”