We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.

Music has always been transnational.

There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.

Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.

I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.