Kazakh star violinist with no violin

What is the price of art?

Some would say there is no such thing, putting a price tag on a piece of art is ludicrous; art essentially is but a matter of taste.

Others would disagree. Certainly, some pieces of art are more valuable than others. Why else would anyone pay $142.4 million for a Francis Bacon’s Triptych?

But hear this one: even Mozart was highly dependent on donations from wealthy patrons and often borrowed from friends.

More often than not arts patronage can do a great deal to help an aspiring musician, a painter or a writer to turn an abstract idea into reality, to communicate one’s art to others, to move the human progress.

A true talent is hard to identify of course, but upon proving oneself doesn’t a person deserve help, financial as well? Surely, yes. But how much?

21-year old Meruert Karmenova is a rising star violinist of humble upbringing from Kazakhstan. Studying in her third year in Moscow State Conservatory, she is already a winner of various international competitions. In 2013 she became a laureate of the 5th Moscow International David Oistrakh Violin Competition.

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