By Megan Westberg
Violinist Yevgeny Kutik's upcoming EP, Meditations on Family, is, as you might imagine from the title, all about the power of family. Made ... Read More...
By Brian Wise
It was prized, stolen, and patched up with Elmer’s glue—after serving as the violin of counts, generals, and at least one virtuoso. Its most noto... Read More...
By Greg Cahill
This past summer, a prominent New York concert violinist lamented in a Facebook post that he had witnessed a master class by a prominent New Yor... Read More...
In a setting as remote and spare as its namesake’s music, the Arvo Pärt Centre opened on October 13, 2018, in Laulasmaa, Estonia, with the composer in attendanc... Read More...
Violinist Nicola Benedetti has been awarded as a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her services to music in the 2019 New Year Hono... Read More...
Sponsored by the IU Jacobs School of Music
Summer String Academy: June 22 - July 20, 2019
For Violinists, Violists, and Cellists ages 12-18
The Summer St... Read More...
What’s your favorite part of the process of making an instrument?
For me, carving the back and top plates is the heart of violin making. It’s a process that is... Read More...
By James N. McKean
Making a violin is much like making music. For you, as a musician, your raw material is notes on a page. Mine is a stack of maple and spruce... Read More...
By Miranda Wilson
Strangers see my cello in airports and approach me. “I love cello! I’ve always wished I could play.”
I say, “Why don’t you?”
They demur. “I... Read More...
Who wouldn’t leap immediately at an opportunity to play a cello by Antonio Stradivari? For Jan Vogler—who was at the time content with his 1721 Montagnana—the p... Read More...
