salema scott was born in this round enough for us his parents were palestinian christians. he studied in london and. under the direction of stock conducted dunya barenboim debuted in new york's famous kind of keyhole. he's great passion is to the works of beethoven. his frequent appearances in israel always challenging. a concert in the middle east he's always as he says more than just the concert. he concerns himself with the relationship between religion and politics and music above all he wants to use music to bring people together. and something joins me now in the studio i welcome you 1st of all tell us a bit more about performing in israel it's it i mean it how emotional is it for you well it's emotional because there are always so many layers of meaning beyond just playing the concert if it would be here in berlin it's quite different and when i say emotional and it doesn't always just positive emotions i mean there's a lot. of baggage there's a lot of extra meaning and. already from the very beginning when i was a child it always meant for me crossing boundaries and