This buyer's guide to notation software for music composition will help you sort through the array of music notation programs and apps to find the right one for your needs.
This buyer's guide to notation software for music composition will help you sort through the array of music notation programs and apps to find the right one for your needs.
Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers’ latest album, Shining Night, includes a mix of classical, jazz, & pop, with guests pianist Fabio Bidini and classical guitarist Jason Vieaux.
His repertoire was enormous, comprising practically every major piece written for the instrument, but certain Heifetz recordings are especially iconic.
By Sasha Margolis
Fritz Kreisler, who forever changed the way we listen to and play the violin, was a disarmingly charming revolutionary... Read More...
Max Richter's The New Four Seasons: Vivaldi Recomposed deploys an unexpected combination of instruments: stringed instruments with period setups and Moog synthesizers from the 1970s.
Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers’ latest album, Shining Night, includes a mix of classical, jazz, & pop, with guests pianist Fabio Bidini and classical guitarist Jason Vieaux.
In this Celtic primer for classical players, learn classical vs. traditional bowing, plus three types of ornamentation, so you can capture the sound of Ireland.
Joseph Kun’s experience teaching and playing coupled with his work as a luthier drove him develop the Kun shoulder rest in 1972. The company celebrates 50 its 50th anniversary this year.
When Jim Svejda arrived in 1979, classical music radio in Los Angeles was flourishing. His retirement this year prompts a look at the state of classical music radio in 2022.
Bow bugs live, breed, and feed in your violin case—and they're more common than you might think. Here's how to identify the problem and what to do if you find them.
When the celebrated electric violinist Tracy Silverman invited Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra to write a major new concerto for him, it was bound to push boundaries.
Angèle Dubeau’s own personal relationship to music has been at least partly informed by the historic Stradivari violin she’s been playing since the age of 15.
Many conductors are former or current string players. But when a conductor has stringed-instrument experience, is he or she more disposed to nurturing the art of string playing?
