Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

When Roddy Chong plays violin, he doesn't sit on a chair. He leaps into the air, runs across an arena stage, lunges forward, and flips his long hair like he's playing in an '80s rock band. He might do ...

ANAHEIM, California (AP) — For over two years, Ebonie Vazquez searched to find a mentor of color for her son, Giovanni, now 11 and passionate about playing the violin. She has now found that space at ...

Several years ago, I was asked to play violin with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. The gig was on a Saturday night — my birthday, in fact — and the show was called “Beethoven’s Last Night.” I had never ...

Booker Rowe, violinist for The Philadelphia Orchestra, knows good music. In addition to growing up in a household where there was always music around him, the Germantown resident started playing the ...

The sound of string instruments echoed throughout an empty auditorium in Hughes Hall. Violin, viola, cello and bass players were together again. Despite COVID-19, the Ohio State Symphony Orchestra ...

The youth orchestra's holiday concert on Dec. 7 includes jazz, soul and video game tunes, with special guest Grammy ...

Christian Johnson, a 26-year-old musician and surgical technician, is loaning quality instruments to talented students at ...

After school let out at Sheppard Accelerated Elementary School in southwest Santa Rosa on Tuesday afternoon, the sound of 41 violins playing “Ode to Joy” echoed down the empty halls. Forty of those ...

“I make and repair violins, violas and cellos. I also teach violin at the Brooks School in North Andover, and play with the Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra in Worcester, and the Bangor, Maine, ...

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All those hours of practice on the violin, first alongside her mother and later for hours on her own, have paid off for Amanda Schuler, who will be performing with the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra ...