Violinist.com: interview with Mikhail Simonyan: Bringing Music to Afghanistan

Posted: June 5, 2014

Violinist Mikhail Simonyan will give his New York Philharmonic debut – a rather big deal for anyone – in just a few weeks. But weighing equally on his mind is a project close to his heart, an initiative he started called “Beethoven, Not Bullets,” to support efforts to bring music education – and for that matter, music itself – to the children of Afghanistan.