I spend hours of every day alone in a practice room. It's just me and the violin, learning how to work together. Or it's me and the...

Being in daily conversation with great works of art is transformative. Today I began my practice routine with a step back in history to...

How do you say hello? When we meet someone for the first time, there are rituals in every culture for smoothing over what is actually an...

"Love alone, yes! love alone can make your life happier. O God! grant that I may at last find her who can strengthen me in virtue, whom I...

More today on this idea of striving. In playing Beethoven's music, I want to capture that rampaging energy of his sonically, without...

If I asked you to pick the first word that comes to mind when I say "Beethoven", what would it be? Maybe it would have to do with one of...

On the very first day of the festival, Katherine Schultz and Mei-Ting Sun and I had one of two brief rehearsals before performing...

I'm finishing up a two week run of concerts at a music festival on the Oregon Coast. It's been a combination of chamber, solo and...

It's the last day of May, and it feels like summer is here. It's also the first weekend off I've had in a scary long time, so my husband...

It seems right that my first post be in honor of my mother, Rose. Mark and I cooked up a little birthday bon bon for her, something sweet...