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May 1, 2026 — I heard Grete Pedersen conduct Juilliard415 and Yale Schola Cantorum in Franz Joseph Haydn’s *The Creation* at Alice Tully Hall. The hall has very little reverberation, a dry acoustic in which instruments and voices are heard exactly as they are. Each individual breath and articulation becomes

Rather than sheer volume or raw power, the performance possessed a quality that pierced deep into the heart. It was a matter of harmony and the very texture of time. The opening note—a D minor chord—struck me like a solemn pronouncement: "You are bound for hell."

Innocence began taking shape in 2013, premiered in 2021, and will premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 2026. Then, standing at the stage door and seeing the artists face to face. To witness a work being born, to experience it, and to encounter the artists themselves is something that cannot

Clara's violin is imbued with pain. Deep within its timbre reside pain, hesitation, and the echoes of things lost. Clara Schumann’s Three Romances: through them, she gains insight, bears the weight of the unattainable, and gives voice to her feelings—love, longing, and pain —all that she

4.2.2026 My very first Nikka’s flute on April 22nd at Paul Hall at Juilliard. Prokofiev’s Sonata was simply an absolute delight. Had this performance taken place at Carnegie Hall, the duo surely would have been called back for an encore following two curtain calls. First, a