Edward has been living in New York for the last 25 years, one of the reasons being the extraordinarily rich cultural life in this city.
He has studied piano and classical music in his early years. He switched later on to computer science and data architecture but he kept an unwavering interest in following the classical music phenomenon here in New York and in his travels.
Edward occasionally reviews fine arts events for the most prestigious literary magazine in Romania, his home country.
The conductor brought the score together by finding unexpected warmth in Sofia Gubaidulina's music and avoiding the melodramatic in his interpretation of Rachmaninov.
The intimate setting and acoustics of Weill Recital Hall proved ideal for a chamber music program, transporting the listener back in time to a 19th-century salon.
David Grimal captures the rhapsodic nature of Chausson and Ravel's scores, but how well does the conductor-less approach work in non-concertante scores?
The 19-year-old performs four masterpieces presented in chronological order and illustrating the evolution of the art of the keyboard from the mid-18th to the mid-20th century.
