Jun Märkl draws a lush "Daphnis et Chloé" as the San Francisco Symphony shines, while violinist Leonidas Kavakos' Bartók ...

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra threw itself a fine party Saturday night. In a cocktail hour-and-a-half, tuxed men and ...

Violinist Leonidas Kavakos made a rare appearance in San Diego Saturday evening at the Balboa Theatre. The Greek virtuoso is well known in Europe, not so much here. His accompanist, however—Yuja ...

Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos is renowned internationally, but you wouldn’t know it as he greets the audience at the Ordway Concert Hall. He doesn’t strut or wave or even smile. Instead, he brings ...

The violin and piano recital has not always been treated as a meeting of equals. The violinist traditionally gets first billing. The pianist has until only recently been referred to as an "accompanist ...

How did they do that? There on the Meyerson Symphony Center podium Thursday night was Leonidas Kavakos, flinging himself left and right, flailing, bouncing and crouching. His baton, waving in the ...

Leonidas Kavakos, the Greek virtuoso in residence at the Kennedy Center for several concerts this month, cultivates a sleek, slightly impersonal sound, in contrast to the fiery intensity of his youth.

Forget about art for art’s sake. The virtuoso violinist Leonidas Kavakos staunchly believes that artistic creativity is vital for a fully human life — and even for our survival. “The arts are not just ...

Full disclosure — and some readers may have gleaned this from my predilection for noise and peppered references to tinnitus — I spent more of my formative years in mosh pits than in concert halls.

Reporting from Santa Barbara — “Disruption” — in the hyped jargon of Silicon Valley, big business and politics — can too easily stand for deception, the overthrowing of expectations to get your way or ...

The violin and piano recital has not always been treated as a meeting of equals. The violinist traditionally gets first billing. The pianist has until only recently been referred to as an “accompanist ...