Please tell us about your first experience with piano. How old were you when you started playing? Did you love it from the beginning or not? Any special and memorable moments from your childhood related to piano you’d like to share? Please also tell us about the role of your family in your music education. […]

14 October 2018 at 19:00 Cadogan Hall Conductor Alexander Walker has been a champion of British music and Elgar in particular over many years, performing his music both in the UK and in places as far flung as Belarus, Russia, Poland and Turkey. The Elgar Society is delighted to recognize his contribution to the appreciation of […]

An interview with Momentum Artists, July 2018.* (1) Momentum: You are a true modern Renaissance woman, despite your very young age: a pianist, poet, visual artist, composer, festival producer, educator, arranger, and transcriber. What a beautiful and rich palette of human depth and creativity! Can you tell us more about how all of those aspects […]

Gentle strokes of piano keys, sensible and precise bass section, intimate atmosphere of a downtown music club are what you will find at Pangea on the music nights with Mark Berman. The master at the piano will fill the room with the first-rate jazz that might remind you a dreamy Paris café somewhere close to […]

On the 29th of June, Maestro Yaron Gottfried will be making his much anticipated Italian debut as a guest conductor with the world-renowned Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. The concert’s program features an intriguing combination of Beethoven’s the Fifth Symphony with Concerto for Piccolo by Lowell Liebermann. More details on the event are here. […]

It was a hot day in 1998, and this was my first trip to Moscow. At the time, I was studying with the then nonagenarian legendary conducting pedagogue Ilya Musin at St. Petersburg State Conservatoire. Two days before, I had made my debut in the theatre of the conservatoire conducting the Marriage of Figaro (sung […]

Welcome to Momentum Artists! This first post is a very personal one, where I attempt to express a whirlwind of emotions related to the launch of this website, as well as the more official launch of Momentum Artists, which I started in 2015. First, I want to say thank you, from the bottom of my […]