How about a little Elliott Carter as you sip your drink and nibble pretzels in a dimly-lit lounge? Don’t scoff. That’s the kind of ear-liberating musical experience you’d expect Matt Haimovitz to ...

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When the pandemic hit last year, cellist Matt Haimovitz admits that at first he felt paralyzed after being on the road touring and performing for more than three decades. He started wondering: What's ...

Rebecca Roudman started playing the cello as a child growing up in Terra Linda, performed with the Marin Youth Orchestra, studied classical music in college, and is now a member of the Santa Rosa and ...

The accomplished artist has collaborated with some of music's biggest names, yet she's still fighting to have people think differently about classical music. NEW YORK (JTA) — There’s a small music ...

This week I attended a very unusual show that showed once again how music transcends all boundaries: music as universal language. The two artists on stage at the Skirball Cultural Center—thanks to ...

After a precocious early career as a traditional cello virtuoso -- performing the standard classical repertoire and recording for Deutsche Grammophon -- Matt Haimovitz has reinvented himself as a sort ...

Musician Leyla McCalla won’t play it straight. On the cellist’s stunning debut, she doesn’t draw from that instrument’s common genre or adopt its conventional tone. She doesn’t even stroke its strings ...

Guy Michel plays the cello but he calls himself a DJ and an emcee. A DJ because he keeps the party going. He plays his electric cello in all the places he was told classical music didn’t fit — like ...

He performed at the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in 2018. Two years earlier, at the age of 17, he won the BBC's Young Musician Competition. And he's appeared on Britain's Got Talent ...

Dirty Cello defies convention — and its members know it. As the Bay Area band returns to Napa for its upcoming performance at the Native Sons of the Golden West Hall on Saturday, April 26, lead ...

When he was a teenager in Oklahoma, Joshua Roman had notions of becoming a rock musician. Even now, he can still play electric guitar, bass and sing lead vocals, but he was soon pulled into a ...