When you think of a Russian violinist, do you picture someone in a tuxedo, rendering compositions by Mozart or Paganini? Or do you instead imagine someone in tight leather pants, rocking out with a 24 ...

Nina DiGregorio always wanted to play rock and roll — but doing that on the violin wasn’t much of an option when she was growing up in upstate New York, she said. Today, however, she’s known as the ...

It all started for me when I had a dream in 8th grade that I was on stage in front of thousands of people playing the violin. I acted upon that dream and began to play my ninth-grade year in high ...

Classical violinists turned YouTubers Brett Yang and Eddy Chen (aka TwoSet Violin) collaborated with the virtual platform Moment House to broadcast a world tour virtually on December 28. Image: ...

At just 10 years old, Brandon Hoff picked up a violin and fell in love. Just a few years later, Mark Wood — the inventor of the first solid-body electric violin and world-leading rock violinist — ...

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 ...

On the evening of Sept. 26, crowds of people gathered in Symphony Hall in anticipation of the sold-out Boston leg of the TwoSet Violin World Tour 2023/24. TwoSet Violin — a hilarious Australian comedy ...

A holiday album that cuts through seasonal glut, a late collaboration by Jim McNeely and Helmut Lachenmann’s string quartets are among the highlights.

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 ...

Brendan Slocumb remembers that moment that classical music just clicked for him. BRENDAN SLOCUMB: The first piece of classical music that I heard was Mozart's "Symphony No. 40." (SOUNDBITE OF ...

Gustavo Dudamel launches the fall season with a world premiere by the Hawaiian composer Leilehua Lanzilotti and Charles Ives’s panorama of Americana, the Symphony No. 2. Yunchan Lim joins in for ...