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.

Audience members at this UCSB Arts & Lectures–sponsored recital got to hear the artist before they could see him, as a few notes of the musician’s offstage warm-up wafted out of the wings before ...

Violinist Leonidas Kavakos performed Mozart's "Turkish" Violin Concerto in A major with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. There on the ...

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 ...

Violinist Leonidas Kavakos is something of a musician's musician in the classical world. He's a favorite among his collaborators: He's the artist in residence this season at the Berlin Philharmonic, ...

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 ...

The Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos is one of the most comprehensively gifted instrumentalists of his time. His playing combines a sweet, singing tone with virtuoso technique and penetrating ...

In his first appearances as The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, violinist and conductor Leonidas Kavakos will make his Philharmonic conducting debut leading and performing J.S. Bach's ...

"What I really want to do is direct" is a cliché among actors. But it seems to be happening with many of the world's great violinists, too. Joshua Bell now conducts London's Academy of St. Martin in ...

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 ...

Hear an excerpt from a new recording of Beethoven's violin sonatas by the violinist and his collaborator, pianist Enrico Pace, that keeps the... Leonidas Kavakos: Letting Beethoven Shine Violinist ...