Heifetz faculty member Mark Kaplan kicked off the Grand Finale of Heifetz2017 by leading an all-star ensemble in a fiery performance of Vivaldi’s Concerto in B minor for four violins. Bravissimo! 

Breezy on the surface, this rendition of “Sea-Shell” is actually a product of three titans of early-20th-century American arts and letters: Amy Lowell, Carl Engel, and Efrem Zimbalist

Self-described "Anglo-African" composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), son of a doctor from Sierra Leone and an English mother: "Mr. Coleridge-Taylor has written much, has achieved much. His work, moreover, possesses not only charm and power but distinction, the...

What’s in a name? Among the hundreds of works by Mozart you’ll see lists of Divertimentos, Cassations, Serenades, and other titles. Modern-day scholars suggest calling them all one thing: “Party Music”

“As I see it, music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.” – Aaron Copland As the nation prepares to inaugurate Joe Biden as the 46th President of…

Our #FacultyFriday series today highlights one of truly memorably aspects of life at the Heifetz Institute: Those moments when our world-renowned Heifetz Institute faculty. members perform alongside their students. Today's instance features violinist Shmuel Ashkenasi,...

From a July 2019 Stars of Tomorrow concert violinist Sophia Steger and pianist Beilin Han play the first movement of the so-called “Rain” Sonata by Johannes Brahms.

Bruch crafted his Romance for viola and orchestra, an affectionate “postcard from the past” that could easily have come from the pen of Mendelssohn, Brahms, or Schumann.

Yes, it was a Year Like No Other, but through it all, Heifetz was there to share some truly magical music moments!  Now we've reviewed the tapes, run the numbers, and had the arguments: From the whopping 207 individual videos and 55 full-length concerts we produced...

Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher, impresario, and Roman Catholic priest Antonio VivaldiThe Mystical Nativity, from the turn of the 16th century by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli,Antonio Vivaldi and the holiday season go together...