The maple and spruce violin was a gift from Cyrus Spurlock's older brother, who crafted it himself. Spurlock was sitting on a ...

While a violin and a fiddle are structurally the same instrument, a fiddle is its own entity—one that's grounded in its ...

The little-known story of Israeli Amnon Weinstein, a musical craftsman who gathered and restored violins that survived the Holocaust, is coming to the West Coast.

Omaha siblings Winston and Giselle Schneider were inspired by a dance marathon to create a benefit for strings students.

Violin is often called the most human of instruments, soft, soulful, and achingly intimate. It’s also one of the most ...

Inspired by conversations Rosenbaum had with Israeli violin maker Amnon Weinstein, the International City Theatre in Long ...

For the past six weeks, musicians have been coming together in a small town in southwest Missouri – some from more than 100 ...

The sound is “sweet” and “flexible,” according to Ken Slowik, the curator of musical instruments at the National Museum of American History. The violin—which came to the Smithsonian on ...

The internationally acclaimed Miró Quartet was founded in 1995. In 2003, it was selected as the resident string quartet for ...

The Bay Area’s Kronos Quartet introduces its latest incarnation during a festival at the SFJazz Center with two new ...