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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The brand new DSD version of The Complete Bach Cello Suites by Zuill Bailey is now available from Octave Records as a download. I don’t care if you love classical music or not, but some recordings ...

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 ...

Early Music Southwest is an international collaboration of baroque-music professionals who specialize in the performance of chamber music of the 17th and 18th centuries on original instruments. EMSW ...

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 ...