Friday, January 18, 2019 at 8:45 PM – 10:00 PM PST
Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA
Internationally acclaimed cellist, composer, and
multilingual vocalist Ian Maksin is back in Bay Area with his freshest original
compositions and latest acquisitions from his world travels—from the Balkans to
Lake Baikal and from the Caucasus Mountains to Cuba.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Russian-born, Chicago-based cellist, composer, and
multilingual vocalist Ian Maksin has gathered a large global ever-growing
audience and offers a distinct musical experience bringing together different
genres and cultures from all over the world. He performs nearly 200 concerts
annually on five continents. He sings in nearly 20 languages: Russian,
Ukrainian, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Yiddish, Ladino
(language of the Sephardic Jews of Spain), Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian, Arabic,
Latvian, Lithuanian, Belarusian, and Macedonian. Equally fluent in jazz,
classical, and world music—using his cello as a main unifying element—Maksin
has created his own style combining these genres in his original music filled
with many elements: Balkan rhythm, West African blues, rumba, flamenco, music
of Tuvan and Mongolian shamans, and more. Maksin describes his artistic goals
as “bringing people together through music despite their religious, political,
cultural differences and languages barriers.”
Cost: $20 - $25
