Symphony Orchestra, fall under El Sistema’s umbrella. Mr. Abreu has said his goal is to reach 500,000 children by 2015. The program has become the envy of the music world, inspiring similar programs in many countries and attracting influential...

So, how would you define yourself by culture then? This leads to a long and rambling sentence which ends with: "It's what I tried to do with The South Bank Show. I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin...

A full listing here would be a bit much, but a few of the well-known names include Gerard Causse, Thomas Zehetmair, Heinz Holliger, Robert Levin, and Julius Berger, among many others. The first disc of the set focuses on previously unreleased recordings...

Fellowship, nicknamed the Genius Grants, as well as Northwestern University’s Jean Gimbel Lane Prize and the Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award. He has appeared with most major American and European orchestras, including a recent...

In 2004, the maestro won the first Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in Bamberg, Germany, and acclaimed conductor Simon Rattle was hailing him as “the most astonishingly gifted conductor I have ever come across.” The L.A. Phil’s Borda recalls...

I am a relatively recent devotee of what I like to think of as the “real” “Porgy and Bess,” the full-length opera. (So far as I can tell, there is only one performance of the opera ever recorded on DVD — a 1993 Trevor Nunn production with Simon Rattle...