Over the course of her career, cellist Maya Beiser has continued to transcend the traditional boundaries of her instrument, reaching far beyond mere interpretation of the classical repertoire, indeed beyond classical music altogether, to become a creative performer drawing on a variety of genres and influences: Eastern, Western, South American folk music, jazz, and even rock and roll. Formerly known as the cellist for the Bang On A Can All Stars, Beiser has emerged as a celebrated artist receiving critical acclaim for her solo performances and recordings. She has commissioned and collaborated with many of the world's most renowned musicians including Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Osvaldo Golijov, David Lang, Nana Vasconcelos, Simon Shaheen, Michael Gordon, Meredith Monk, Julia Wolfe and Trent Reznor.

In recent years she has collaborated with Academy-award winning composer Tan Dun premiering his Water Passion after St. Matthew with Helmuth Rilling's Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart on a live TV broadcast throughout Europe, as well as at the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg, and the BAM Next Wave Festival in New York. She is the cello soloist on Sony Classical CD release of the Water Passion, and has performed Tan Dun's Crouching Tiger Concerto with orchestras around the globe including China Philharmonic and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Oregon Bach Festival, Utah Symphony, Eos Orchestra and Sydney Symphony.

Beiser's solo concerts and performances have been featured at major festivals and concert halls across four continents. Her latest multimedia concert World To Come premiered in New York as part of the inaugural season of Carnegie Hall's new venue, Zankel Hall. Other highlights of her World To Come tour include performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Krannert Center in Illinois, Sydney Festival in Australia, The Vale of Glamorgan festival in England, Steve Reich Festival in Holland and Transart festival in Italy.

Her past seasons' appearances include the Lincoln Center's Great Performers series, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, tHolland Festival, London's South Bank Meltdown Festival, BBC Proms, Yeats Festival in Dublin, Adelaide Festival, Wellington Festival in New Zealand, Settembre Musica in Torino, Jerusalem Festival, and Prague Spring Festival. Highlights of this season's upcoming performances include UCLAÕs Royce Hall, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Cornell University and the Edison Theater in St. Louis. She will be the featured soloist with the Philip Glass Ensemble in a performance of Glass's Naqoyqatsi, with concerts in Australia, Japan, Poland, Paris and New York.

Beiser received numerous grants and awards for her commissions, including the Rockefeller Foundation's Multi-Arts Fund, the Koussevitzki Foundation, Meet the Composer, The Cary Charitable Trust, and National Endowment for the Arts. She has recorded for Koch International, Sony Classical, Cantaloupe Music, and Nonesuch. Raised on a Kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentinean father, Maya Beiser is a graduate of Yale University. Her major teachers were Aldo Parisot, Uzi Wiesel, Alexander Schneider and Isaac Stern.