"The most amazing artistic moments of my life have happened in a live performance where you feel the silence, the absence of noise."
"I was totally in sync with Lenny's mind. He heard what he wanted through me. So he gave me permission to go deeper into whatever emotional reservoir I had to bring it out."
"My answer to that is to keep writing music that I think is important. I think there's an element of people when they hear the truth, they respond to it"
"When I heard it for the first time I was really just so happy. It's something that I dreamed of when I was writing and just hearing it right in front of me was just amazing."
"The violin is my voice. When you have so much to say what it comes down to it is are you transporting yourself and the audience with what you have to say through your music."
"I feel that every day I pick up the instrument is an opportunity to reinvent myself better, better in the image of the instrument, which will always be better than me, better in the image of the composer's living or recently dead or long dead, who are often also humbling figures in in one's psyche."
San Francisco Symphony
October 1st - October 2nd
October 1st - October 2nd
"I think it was the start of me becoming more interested in works that had explicit theatrical elements and a legible kind of quasi-narrative element. And it was really a chance for me to really see how versatile I could be as a performer."
"I am glad to see increasing attention being paid to inclusiveness in the classical music scene and elsewhere."
L.A. Union Station Social Media Pages
Begins July 19th
Begins July 19th