Biography based on an interview of Andrejs Zagars in Riga on May 18, 2006 The biography of Andrejs Zagars, the general director of the Latvian National Opera (LNO) in Riga, is the kind of...

Biography based on an exclusive interview with Andris Nelsons in Riga in June 2006 Andris Nelsons was born in Riga in 1978. Both his parents are musicians. His father is a cellist, the...

There are the great and famous artists, there are those that are just famous, and then there are countless little-known artists....

Martha Argerich was born in Buenos Aires in 1941. At 3, she played the piano for the first time. Two years later, she began taking piano lessons with Vicenzo Scaramuzza. At 8, she made her...

Valery Gergiev was born in Moscow in 1953 to Ossetian parents. He spent his youth in the Caucasus. For a Russian career at a relatively old age, he learned to play the piano. At the...

After 26 years in the service of the German city of Leipzig, Johann Sebastian Bach died on July 28, 1750. The Bach-year is still...

Malcolm Boyd’s Bach-biography from 1983 has been re-issued in German in the year 2000 by DVA. It covers the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach, who died 250 years ago [English...

Born in Budapest in 1952, the pianist, composer and conductor Zoltán Kocsis commenced his musical studies when he was 5 years old and continued them at the Béla Bartók Conservatory from...