Interview with Avi Avital

"None of the great composers considers mandoline to be a concert instrument. Therefore they don't compose music for it. That being said, I have a solution: I can rearrange the music that I like for the mandoline. I have been doing it for thirty years."

The grammy-nominated mandolinist Avi Avital, who is the world’s most exciting musicians joins the Verbier Festival for the first time. He tells us what is being a mandoline player in the classical world.

Enter behind the scenes at the Verbier Festival 2015 – one of the most renowned festival of classical music in the world! Every year since 2011, medici.tv has accompanied the live webcasts with a selection of interviews shot with the best artists of our time. This year is no exception: with the Verbier Festival 2015 comes a collection of new interviews, all available on medici.tv!