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Interview with Avi Avital

Behind the Scenes at the Verbier Festival 2015

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"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.

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