When Joshua Bell was just three or four, he made a rudimentary instrument by stringing rubber bands over a dresser drawer. That’s something a lot of kids do for fun, but not all of them grow up to be ...

Old Town Road in a Classical style, with a violin and loop pedal. What other genres would this song sound good in?

The subject of death has been a focus of a large number of classical pieces of music from the earliest times to the present day. It is one of the few certain aspects of a life and understandably ...

With sparkly hula-hoops circling their waists, Brett Yang and Eddy Chen started their energetic rendition of the Bach Double Violin Concerto’s first movement. The piece is normally stoic and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. How do you get to New York’s Carnegie Hall? In the celebrated words of Jack Benny: practice, practice, practice. Ray Chen has just played ...

The International Violin Competition of Indianapolis' coming season will deliver the classical masterpieces audiences have come to expect. But across the fall of 2025 and first half of 2026, several ...

Scientists in the United Kingdom have made what may be the world's smallest violin, using advanced nanotechnology. The microscopic instrument, measuring 35 by 13 microns, and constructed from platinum ...

In the sprawling landscape of contemporary music, where genre boundaries increasingly blur into irrelevance, Black Violin emerges as something genuinely exceptional—a classical-meets-hip-hop ...

The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University has appointed David Chan as Professor of Violin, starting full time in the fall of 2025. Chan joins Shepherd's violin faculty after 25 seasons as ...