Now when he was just a little boy. A box sweet for a cello moved to tears so his mom very wisely sent him to a cello teacher now hes one of the worlds top soloists and has before with old the major orchestras to great acclaim and hes even cofounded an entire Symphony Orchestra in bolivia. Beethoven in cochabamba bolivia. Within just a few years of its birth you were cast off yet im only got to believe you has become one of the countrys top orchestras cofounded by german cellist leo not. Live in violinist me. It was on a South American Tour in Two Thousand And Twelve that edge and both met salazar and other young bolivian musicians and i was struck by their passionate playing but also by their limited funds. Just months later engine was back in
bolivia with european funding to help found the orchestra since then hes returned regularly as a soloist and mentor. His enthusiasm there has been infectious whether its for contemporary composers or for Beethoven Sonata is he recorded for his ne
was born and we visited his house and we shot three trailers over the city as well for the album and it was great to be so so close to where where he was born and to visit his birthplace and it s the i think it s four hundred i don t know how many hundred six hundred fifty a two hundred fifty. just now i want to talk about this extraordinary orchestra bolivia what is so special about it in that you give you devote a loss of your time to it why is that it s. because i met musicians for really burning for for their own development burning to have music in their country in a place where there was nothing to support that and not even any suggestion that they could make a living that way it wasn t like somebody said young people should make music let s let s invest but they were just we want this. we don t all we have is the passion in our hearts and and whatever we can find online to listen to music we can