The Black Violin Full Circle Tour is where Grammy-nominated duo Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus redefine the possibilities of ...

Daniel Stepner, professor of the practice of music at Brandeis and longtime first violinist in the Lydian String Quartet, plays a “modern” violin crafted in 1727. And a “period” instrument made by the ...

Research anthropologist Bruno Frohlich uses a CT scanner to study both antique and contemporary violins. In the Stradivariuses at right, which tend to be thinner than most and have a more uniform ...

Brooklyn luthier Samuel Zygmuntowicz, who has made instruments for renowned American contemporary classical violinists from Isaac Stern to Joshua Bell, gave a lecture last year at New York's Museum of ...

The most illustrious of several violin makers in the Bergonzi family was Carlo, born in Cremona, Italy, in 1683 (d. 1747). His training is not documented, but his early instruments show the influence ...

Armenian violinist Haik Kazazyan has triumphed at the first-ever Classic Violin Olympus competition at Dubai’s Jumeirah ...

Sibelius Violin Competition is breaking records ahead of its May start, with nearly all final round tickets sold out and ...

Gil Shaham, one of the 21st century’s pre-eminent violinists, will perform as part of the 14th InClassica International Music Festival. Alongside the Franz Schubert Filharmonia and Spanish ...

Next, the group will perform Violin Concerto No. 4 from American-Ukrainian composer Alexey Shor. From one of the oldest operas in the canon to this contemporary work, Shor’s Concerto’s is the ...