The Aspen Music Festival and School lures classical listeners to the Rocky Mountains each summer because of the elite musicians on the concert schedule. In 2015 alone, marquee names like violinist ...

These pieces of music are all terrifyingly ambitious and virtuosic – and they might just make your fingers bleed. Here are the most difficult pieces ever written for the violin. Looking for some ...

Black Violin is the modern incarnation of that simple, but constant, drive to perform. “It’s hard to come from humble beginnings, so when they offer to pay, you to come,” says violinist Kev Murphy. “I ...

Sometimes, when things are stressful, nothing but the soothing sound of a solo violin will cut it to bring your heart rate down and induce a state of musical bliss. For those moments, we’ve chosen a ...

Wynton Marsalis' rare musical versatility has long been a beacon in the worlds of jazz and classical music. Now the Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer brings those ...

Did you know that at age five, John Lesaca was enrolled at the UP Conservatory of Music and that was when he began playing the violin? Asked how he got interested in music so early, John told Funfare ...

Third Man Records is set to release a compilation of rare and unheard Indian violin music spanning from 1933 to 1952. How the River Ganges Flows, due out September 18th, “is a transcendent collection ...

Carnatic musician Amritha Murali, trained in both vocal music and violin from a young age, has carved a niche for herself ...

It's ironic that while violins are popular instruments for children to learn to play, they can also be very pricey. The Montreal-based AVIVA Young Artists Program has set out to change that, by ...

Artists and musicians often take the first hit when the economy takes a turn for the worse. Host Michel Martin speaks with writer Amanda Abrams about one violin maker's struggle to make ends meet in ...