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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The violin and piano recital has not always been treated as a meeting of equals. The violinist traditionally gets first billing.

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 ...

Leonidas Kavakos, violinist and conductor on the next Houston Symphony Broadcast. Coming up on the next Houston Symphony Broadcast, Greek violinist and conductor Leonidas Kavakos takes to the stage ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 breeze, sometimes evinced ...