Our bass students study in depth the art of solo, orchestral and chamber music double bass performance. During their time at the College of Music, students focus on rich, resonant and lyrical tone ...

Violinist Tessa Lark is consistently praised for her astounding range of sounds, technical agility, and musical elegance. She is also a highly acclaimed fiddler in the tradition of her native […] ...

At Chamber Music Northwest, Fred Child is on stage with bassist Edgar Meyer and cellist Peter Wiley. They play the second and third movements from Rossini's Duo for Cello and Double Bass.

Written to reconcile Brahms and his close friend Joseph Joachim, the solo instruments are treated like two voices in dialogue. The assertive (female) violin and dreamy (male) cello combine to ...

The double bass is the biggest string instrument in the orchestra, and a great instrument to learn if you want to play jazz. It got its name from the job it used to do.

Renaud Garcia-Fons is such a virtuoso and Beyond The Double Bass —a compilation drawn from ten previous albums, with an accompanying DVD documentary—is absolutely superb. Garcia-Fons—who favors a five ...

Wooden Instument maker Benedict Puglisi is seen here making a new double bass in his studio in Hawthorn. Puglisi started out in 1995 with one wooden briefcase of tools and a $25 Chinese violin ...

North Yorkshire Police are appealing for information about two musical instruments that were stolen near Darlington.

The cello, otherwise known as a violoncello, is a bowed instrument with four strings. It's a close cousin of the violin, viola, and double bass. The cello can be played as a solo instrument, as well ...

Maple wood samples from the interior of the instruments' back plates were obtained as thin shavings during the repair of cracks. The instruments were a violin by Stradivari, dated 1717; a cello by ...