The extraordinary violinist Vijay Gupta has built a career around asking where classical music can matter – and to whom – from the LA Phil to Street Symphony’s work in shelters, clinics, and prisons.
I had the privilege of interviewing Gupta for The Strad about his inspiring new memoir, Restrung, and why, as he puts it, “classical music needs a new why.”
Vijay Gupta had played Carnegie Hall as a child, studied at Juilliard and Yale, and joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic when he was only 19, making him one of the youngest violinists to enter the ranks of a major American orchestra. At an early age, he seemed already to have reached the destination so many young string players are trained to imagine as success…
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