After school let out at Sheppard Accelerated Elementary School in southwest Santa Rosa on Tuesday afternoon, the sound of 41 violins playing “Ode to Joy” echoed down the empty halls. Forty of those ...

We often marvel at prodigies who mastered the art of both violin and piano playing at a young age (e.g., German violin soloist and concert pianist Julia Fischer). Speaking from an ordinary person’s ...

DETROIT (AP) – Grandearmere Burton cradles the violin under his chin, and the labels peel away. Poor black kid. One of eight born to a never-married single mom. No future. The bow glides across the ...

Although she hasn’t even begun her high school career yet, Elizabeth Lutgen is riding high following her landmark first-place finish in the Chautauqua’s Got Talent competition at the Spire Theater ...

Leonidas Kavakos walks onstage, a presence unlike any other superstar violinist. Over 6 feet tall, fashionably dressed in black and sporting a wry smile, he nevertheless looks a bit awkward, carrying ...

Ava Silva Costa, a 15-year-old sophomore at the Ranney School in Tinton Falls, plays her violin to help heal patients at ...

The violin and viola that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played himself are in the United States for the first time ever. The instruments come out of storage only about once a year at the Salzburg Mozarteum ...