Ian Maksin & Zaria band at 210 Live (w/Gabriel Datcu)

School of Folk Music in Chicago, this will be Maksin's debut performance at 210 Live in Highwood! Join by the ZARIA band featuring Romanian guitar virtuoso Gabriel Datcu and other leading Chicago musicians, Maksin will share some of his latest repertoire additions: original music infused with flavors of Russian, Balkan, Middle Eastern and Latin-American music, his own renditions of folk music from different corners of the world in many languages including Russian, Ukrainian, Armenian, Latvian, French, Italian, Portuguese and Turkish, and well as Latin jazz and bossa favorites from Chick Corea, Tom Jobim and more!
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. Although still very active as a classical artist, Ian Maksin’s latest focus has shifted towards blending many styles together: jazz, blues, rock, and world music, blending many styles together using the cello as the common denominator. He can often be heard and seen in collaborative projects with artists from different corners of the globe: Palestine, Israel, Morocco, Cuba, Serbia, Iran, Pakistan, India, Spain, Mexico, Japan, just to name a few. As a guest artist, he has performed and recorded with such artists as Andrea Bocelli, P. Diddy, Snoop Dogg, Gloria Estefan and Barry Gibb. He has also opened performances for Sting and his guitarist Dominic Miller.