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“A grand hug from an unconditionally-loving soul,” is how internationally-acclaimed violin virtuoso and prodigy Caroline Goulding describes the slow…
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For pianist Jon Nakamatsu, the biggest surprise in the 19 years since he won the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1997 is “how fast the time…
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Canadian harpist Caroline Cole says people sometimes have a limited notion of what a harp can do and sound like. Her varied career includes performing…
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When Yevgeny Kutik’s family left the Soviet Union in 1990, they were forced to leave most of their belongings behind. But his violinist mother insisted on…
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Elena Ulyanova has a special relationship with the music of Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, whose “Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini” she will perform…
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Natasha Korsakova grew up surrounded by music: her father and grandfather were virtuoso Russian violinists (Andrei and Boris Korsakov), her mother a…
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Allison Eldredge says that if you had asked her at age 11 what she wanted to be when she grew up, she would have a said a great concert cellist. Within…
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Harmonica virtuoso Robert Bonfiglio has played hundreds of concerts in all the great concert halls of the world, but to this day, his love for the…
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Pianist Antonio di Cristofano says “one must enter into the mind of Beethoven” when playing his music, which is what he will do when he performs the Piano…
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Concert soloist Lindsay Deutsch likens playing the violin to being a gymnast on a balance beam who is asked to “cry, or also get very angry, or be very…