The memories of how participating in Sistema affected me personally and emotionally inspire both my ongoing advocacy for a public music and my continued pursuit of artistic excellence as a conductor.
New Professional Appointment
The Morality of “Paid to Play”
We should pay children to read great literature. It has manifest educational and social benefits. It’s not a foreign idea to be immediately despised; it was hatched in America. It’s not socialist or morally objectionable; it’s just early exposure to capitalism in that it concretely rewards effort.
Jonathan Andrew Govias 