I think the best way to tell you what I love most about the Stanford Recording Arts Workshop is just to describe the opening and closing pieces of the 2023 Workshop album, called Evolution and Resolution. They’re really mesmerizing, and they’re a collaboration between a young music professor from South Korea playing the guzheng, a 69-year-old piano teacher from San Jose, CA, a Harvard undergraduate, and a kid who came here straight from high school in Hong Kong… All students at the Workshop that year, who decided to do a song together — two songs together! And I just was thinking the whole time: ‘Where else would these four people ever come together and collaborate on a beautiful work of art?