The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.

My main goal, and it's a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music - as a right - that as they have access to food, health, and education, they get the chance to have art and culture - especially music.

For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because my family is there - my wife, my parents and my musical family.

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.

Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.

I studied music since I was four years old, and from that moment I became part of a family. And that family has taught me things; not only musical things, but things I have to face in life, and that is where the success of the system lies