The Space Between the Notes – XLV

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“It’s not your fault that the world is the way it is. It will be if it stays that way.”
 – Die Ärzte, German punk band

At the GAIA Music Festival we were asked to try to synopsise what it is we have been doing all these years, other than presenting and showcasing exhilarating live concerts with some of the best musicians we can find. We poured over our work and realised that we uphold fundamental values and standards while embracing community and connection.

GAIA Music Festival

Promoting a New Set of Core Values in Classical Music

Here are some of the things we do at GAIA:

- We've consistently upheld the importance of everyone's role in classical music.
- We provide a return to a broad array of interests in art.
- We dismantle entrenched caste systems that equate the value of musicians with the costliness of their instrument.
- We dismiss the industry’s infatuation with youth.

Read here to find out what else we do, and how we do it.

Image by Janos Fejer

The 15th Edition of GAIA

MENSCH – Of Courageous Freedom and Freed Courage

This year’s GAIA Music Festival celebrates an abundance of music, the people who make it, the people who write about it, experience it, work all year to present it, and the stories behind it all can be read and listened to here: GAIA Website and Programme.

New release - GAIA Music Festival 2022

The "Family" album is released on Naxos this month. It includes performances by violinists Kirill Troussov and Clémence de Forceville, baritone Wolf Matthias Friedrich, and pianist Alexandra Troussova, playing works by Wolfgang, Leopold, and Franz Xaver Mozart, Kateřina Smetanová Kolářová and Bedřich Smetana.

Get the album here!

Simon Bucher and I during recording of our "Flame" album.

I’m looking forward to the revived run of performances with my piano partner of twenty years, Simon Bucher, and author Meral Kureyshi in “… of Love and Other Stories.”