We want to bring the joy of music to those who are less fortunate and don't have an opportunity to hear, understand, and love it. With tickets to professional performances being so expensive, and people unable to get to concert halls, we feel it's our duty to bring music to our community, especially to those who are in the most need for love and care. Our mission takes us to orphanages, retirement homes, schools, churches, and other places.

Fedor expresses his thoughts and feelings about music...

I love to listen to music a lot.  Many people have iPods, but only none of them put classical music in.  Seems like except me!  Because I have 100 pieces in my iPod and all of them are classical.  My favorite musicians are Yasha Heifetz, Victor Borge.  I even have Kreisler playing his own compositions.  I like to compare the interpretations of the same piece by different performers.  Each musician gives the piece a different character by changing the tempos, dynamics and overall feelings.   When I was little I didn’t like practicing, but now it is more interesting and entertaining because I understand more about the reasons of doing things this or that way in music.  I love getting new pieces; they give me a chance to, as real professional performers do, choose my way of playing and doing the piece.  Every time I play on stage it gets easier and more exciting than usual.  It’s different to play for many people than to play for yourself when you practice because on stage I get a little nervous and try to show my best and make people feel happy about music like I do.   I like to listen to operas and ballets.  I sometimes go to the Kennedy Center to listen to them.  Operas are my favorite; among them I really enjoy Wagner’s operas.  I often look at the conductor and watch how he conducts.  It seems to me as though his role is most fun and interesting.  He gets an opportunity to feel and express the music through his hands.  Then I decided to become one.  It requires a lot of education: first, I have to become a great violinist, then I have to know all the theory, know how to play different instruments.  I’m already learning how to play piano and I have a plan: I will learn to play the clarinet for about a year or so, then learn flute to perfection, I’ll learn a brass instrument (which I didn’t pick yet) and maybe some percussion.   I hope that l will get the Jack Kent Cooke scholarship because only then we will have enough money for all that I want to do.   I like my teacher Peter Sirotin very much.  He really helps me do my best on violin.  I hope he can teach at Levine School of music because I love the School very much, too.  I like Peter Jablow – director of the School.  He was so much fun when he helped me and Sofia with our humoresque.  Lois Narvey is a very nice lady, she helped us, too.