INTERVIEW BY CHRISTIAN LLOYD
TOP PHOTO MARCO BORGGREVE. MAIN PHOTO MARTIN NAGORNI
When I was three, my family moved from Ukraine to Riga, Latvia. Although we emigrated to Israel when I was 16 I still have many friends in Riga and often go back to the city to perform - I have a deep nostalgia for the land where I grew up. As soon as I heard Latvian composer Peteris Vasks’ First Violin Concerto ‘Distant Light’, I fell in love. It’s an extraordinary work, full of the melodies of the Latvian language and the music I associate with my childhood - which, for everyone, embodies a special place of security.