Can You Play at Carnegie Hall This Weekend? (It’s a Trick Question…)
I was in the middle of preparing for my next monster recording with the London Symphony Orchestra less than 2 weeks away when I suddenly got a call on Wednesday...
A Musical Sunday…
Really excited to appear on CBS Sunday Morning with esteemed journalist, Dean Reynolds this Sunday at 9 AM EST. Here are a couple of pics from the day I was...
Let’s Party Like It’s 2015!!
I have much to be thankful for and am so grateful for your support and interest in my music. I am thrilled to discover that I was the top-selling instrumentalist...
Destination, Paradise Bakery, Aspen, CO
I was 14 years old when I first played for Dorothy DeLay at the Aspen Music School. I met her years before when I performed with the New York Philharmonic...
The Soul of the World’s Most Expensive Violin
Recently, I spoke and performed some Vivaldi excerpts with Linda Wertheimer at the NPR Studios in Washington D.C. for Morning Edition. March 07, 2014 3:15 AM Morning Edition 7 min 20...
Just Don’t Call Me Swamp Thing…
I knew I was in trouble when the director of the Triple Video sat me down and told me to just hear him out. “What we want you to do...
Recipe: How to Make a CD
Well, you must be 2 parts crazy and 2 parts insane. What got me started was finding out that Vivaldi died in 1741 and the Ex-‘Vieuxtemps’ Guarneri was born in...
When you are 20 years old, don’t wear the following…
An old acquaintance who interviewed me when I was 20 years old recently contacted me. A very talented journalist/writer, I remember doing the in-person interview on the streets of Chicago....
