The viola player Brett Dean took a risk that paid off when he left the orchestra to become a full-time composer.

A Stradivarius violin is one of the most prized instruments in classical music. The few musicians lucky enough to play an ...

Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an ...

Yan oversaw transformation of orchestra into city's 'cultural calling card' and established academic setting for traditional ...

At this unique Pennsylvania site, striking the boulders creates a natural bell-like sound you have to hear to believe.

VANCOUVER — The church of Goldie Boutilier is a broad one.

Composer Vincent Ott and musician Andrew Loper, known on-stage as Rubber, first met three years ago at an open mic night at ...

Wheatus at Assembly, Ghostface Killah at Bardavon, a swing festival from Lincoln Center in the Catskills and much more this ...

There is mounting evidence that playing music, or even listening to it, can delay or reverse the onset of normal age-related ...

Once a week, Michelle Wibbelsman, professor of Latin American Indigenous Cultures, and her group of students can be found in the Timashev Family Music Building at Ohio State, brandishing their ...

Mackenzie Young took a buyout from his software engineering job at Google, moved home, and began pursuing a career in ...

Geirr Tveitt’s reputation was tarnished by his nationalist politics. But a new generation of musicians is bringing this ...