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...

Welcome to Winter! At exactly 5:02 AM Eastern time, the Winter Solstice – representing the shortest day and longest night of the year – arrived in the Northern Hemisphere. We celebrate with a Heifetz Holiday Tour performance at Mary Baldwin University, featuring Rachell Ellen Wong as the soloist in Vivaldi’s “Winter” concerto from the Four Seasons.

We celebrate Beethoven’s 250th Birthday with day-long marathon of all 16 of the German master’s string quartets, played live in concert by the resident Borromeo Quartet.

Tomorrow night, the first candles will glow for Hanukkah 2020, which starts on the evening of Thursday, December 10, 2020, and ends with the final candle being lit for the Festival of Lights on the evening of Friday, December 18, 2020. In between, it's an extended...

Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, pictured at his writing desk in 1915. "For financial expediency, Sibelius composed many short pieces for the violin during the First World War (orchestras struggled, as musicians were called to the front). However, these inventive...

“In the three variations, in the main theme, and in the introduction…each section has a heartbeat that keeps it alive,” say violinist Pierce Wang about Paganini’s ultra-tricky Variations on “I Palpiti….”