I recently returned from Nepal where my foundation was working with orphans from the Unatti House and children in Bhaktapur. I also had the pleasure of doing my very first Artist Ambassador program with the Save The Children foundation and I can say that everything was an intensely emotional and gratifying experience. I plan on [...]
I know I’ve been negligent with my blogging but if nothing else, it has been for good reason. My performing schedule has been jam packed this season; so much that I’ve been reduced to tweeting rather than blogging. But the other reason is becasue of a great deal of important work with the HEARTbeats Foundation, [...]
What is dear and tragic in these photos is that this young Haitian girl feels the need to play her cello for the school that is gone, for herself in that it may help heal her emotional turmoil, and that through music and our instrument we can say things to each other and to ourselves [...]
I just posted a pair of videos of an interview I did with Violinist Giora Schmidt backstage at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. I have to apologize for not posting with more frequency but I’m writing something right now which will go up soon and I have a big announcement about a foundation I’ve [...]
I have four new videos available of myself and pianist Yuja Wang performing Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19 at the 2008 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Audio and Video Produced and Engineered by Matthew Snyder of Matthew Snyder Recordings. Festival artistic director Marc Neikrug, executive director Steven Ovitsky, and everyone [...]
It’s Take a Friend to the Orchestra month and it was my pleasure to write something which was published this morning as part of the initiative. You can read my article, along with so many other wonderful contributions from an esteemed collection of other contributors, from the past two weeks at Adaptistration.com, which hosts the [...]
It has been now 15 years since I performed Bruch’s Kol Nidre at the Vatican for a concert commemorating the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust . The memory continues to vibrate my soul and I think of these ten minutes of music in my career and life as a seminal to my [...]
