Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. A lot has happened in the world of contemporary classical music in the past two decades. The dominance of the atonal approach to music, while still alive and well in many new pieces, has been forced to share the stage it once dominated with a resurgent tonality that looks likely to stick […]

The Kronberg Academy was founded in 1993 in Germany to give promising young violinists, violists and cellists a top-flight musical education and the support they need to make successful careers for themselves. Over the years, string luminaries such as violinists Gidon Kremer and Christian Tetzlaff, violist Yuri Bashmet and the late cellist Mstislav Rostropovich have […]

Pianist Yuja Wang. Few things are as much fun, or as contentious, as arguing about which singer, which conductor, or which performer on a certain instrument, is the best. As a fellow who started playing the piano when I was a little boy, I’ve always enjoyed talking about great pianists of the past and the […]

Gabrielle Chou, after her concert Sunday. Gabrielle Chou will celebrate her 14th birthday in less than two weeks, but even at that very young age this violinist, pianist and composer has already made impressive strides in the world of classical music. I heard the Pembroke Pines teenager (she enters West Broward High in the fall, […]