International Music Festival “Time, Place, Action”

International Music Festival “Time, Place, Action”

Friday, May 15, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Tobin Center for the Performing Arts Carlos Alvarez Studio  Artist Bios Featuring Vijay Iyer: MacArthur Genius Fellow, Harvard Music Professor and Grammy nominated jazz pianist with the award-winning Brentano String Quartet of the Yale School of Music. Best known as a jazz pianist, Iyer has released 17 albums, and in 2012 was named jazz artist of the year by Down Beat magazine. The New Yorker dubbed him “extravagantly gifted” and “brilliantly eclectic.” In the work titled “Time, Place, Action,” stylistically speaking, Iyer draws on everything from hard-bop jazz, to Indian ragas...

MBAW 2014-15 Season

For 16 years MBAW has been producing one-of-a-kind multicultural performances by the finest musicians from around the globe. Our mission is to unite, educate and inspire through culturally diverse programming. Cornerstones of our programs include: Providing free admission to the public, making art accessible to all Targeting youth – particularly at-risk, to develop audiences of tomorrow Partnering with the City and other organizations to foster San Antonio’s reputation as a cosmopolitan cultural center MBAW was founded in 1998 by Russian-born pianist, Dr. Anya Grokhovski and a group of avid music lovers. Anya’s fiery passion for...

MBAW Follows the Silk Road to New York

MBAW Follows the Silk Road to New York

Musical Bridges Around the World’s (MBAW) Artistic Director, Dr. Anya Grokhovski just returned from New York where she observed the Silk Road Project’s community outreach educational program. The purpose of this trip was for Anya to “learn the ropes” of a long term in-school, multi-cultural educational initiative.  This program has been in existance for many years and helped MBAW learn how to create a sustainable multi-cultural educational program in San Antonio Title One schools. MBAW has been working with individual musicians from the Silk Road Project for many years and it was wonderful to see them involved in...

Treasure Hunting

Treasure Hunting

A Third World country somewhere far away, tropics, hot and humid, beat-up old roads, intoxicating unfamiliar aroma of street food on every corner, a lot of weird people, dirty streets, everything screams DANGER! Yes, I am describing a very popular Discovery Channel TV show about hunting gemstones.  A couple of brave guys go, let’s say to Burma among other places, with the mission to find precious gems and sell them in the west for a hefty profit. I am in a similar business, but I hunt talent, not for profit but for pure love of world class art and this time my mission took me to New York (for the most parts fits the same description…) I was...