{ Stories }

"I don't believe music changes the world because it provides answers. I believe it changes the world because it reminds us that before we are anything else, we are human."

– Etienne Gara

"It’s such a joy to be able to make music with a friend you also admire as a musician. I feel like we push each other in different directions."

– Inon Barnatan

"It wasn’t a story to be sung. It was a story to be spoken, carried by a narrator with a beautiful voice."

– Christopher Cerrone

"It was, and still is, my second home. A place that really serves as a coherent throughline in my professional and personal life."

– Alisa Weilerstein

"That the music written hundreds of years ago would be considered “fresh and new” underscores Bach’s Shakespearian presence in our current lives."

– James Roe

"As I wrote this piece, I realized that one of its purposes was to bring together different facets of my own life experience. As a classical musician, the vast majority of my colleagues have little knowledge or understanding of Black culture, nor of how it influences my music-making."

– Steven Banks

“He did it in an admirable way. Not one word about the piece, not one comment. All simple, yes, but only through the music.”

– Pierre-Laurent Aimard

"I love that with Antara, finally, you feel that you are a musician, an executor, a performer, not a pianist, you know. So that's much more interesting to learn."

– Pierre-Laurent Aimard