Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

Breckenridge’s National Repertory Orchestra has been performing regularly this summer since its season began June 26, and the nonprofit focused on educating young musicians is packing as much as ...

The violin, made with almost only locally sourced materials by local craftspeople, is featured in a piece written by a 17-year-old cellist. What: “Underrepresented . . . and great!” prerecorded ...

The Acadiana Symphony Orchestra will go on its first international tour next month alongside violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn, who performs on one of the world's most legendary instruments. The musicians ...

We’re doing American soundscapes so a lot of patriotic music,” conductor Derrick Gossard said. “We wanted to do something enjoyable for the audience and honor our veterans.” ...

Katherine McLin, the concertmaster of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, plays the 1709-10 Gobetti violin at the Chicago rare instrument dealer Bein & Fushi. A rare, 300-year-old violin recently ...

Erin Aldridge was hardly more than a baby when teachers at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music found that she had perfect rhythm and perfect pitch. Thus at age 2 ½ the future concertmaster of the ...

Very few people ever have the opportunity to search for a violin worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Most of us, though, know what it’s like to go on a date. As it turns out, the two experiences ...

Violinist Pathrycia Mendonça will play with the Simón Bolívar Orchestra of Venezuela as Coldplay's opening act at Wembley Stadium [BBC] Pathrycia Mendonça never has to worry about jet lag. The 26-year ...

A Plum High School orchestra student will have the chance to perform for the whole city. Justin Muretisch, a senior at Plum, has been selected with others from around the area to participate in the ...

At the beginning of my violin studies, my father, whom Grandpa taught, frequently practiced with me. Practices had the gravity of carrying on a Bolton family tradition — even as a child, I knew that.