Multitalented violinist Yury Revich will give the world premiere of his own composition, OCEAN, a new work for solo violin and orchestra, at Carnegie Hall in New York on November 12. Hailing from a four-generation musical family, Yury has built
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Over the course of listening to Beethoven’s early and middle period string quartets, music lovers have the privilege of hearing a brilliant young composer step into the tradition of Haydn and Mozart – then begin to innovate beyond it. Written
