Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

Josh Santana ’20, ’22, a Lowell native, fell in love with the violin when he was 7 years old after hearing a solo violin performance on television. “The sound was just miraculous, beautiful,” he says.

Orchestras began tuning to the oboe, in part, because its sound was more penetrating in a performance setting than gut strings. There were also fewer oboes than violins, and in the earliest orchestras ...

Music allows Sophie Till to reach across continents. She teaches musicians of all skill levels from all different parts of the world the finer points of string instruments. From Marywood University, ...

Crisp, warm, responsive. The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is on a journey to meet these benchmarks under the baton of music director Gianandrea Noseda. One of the ways in which he's shaping a new ...

Camerata Chamber Orchestra is open by audition to all CWRU students, faculty, and community members who play string instruments and are interested in performing in a flexible yet high-level chamber ...

U-Penn Phd.D student Leening Liu works to align the bass in the CT scanner for. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to ...

Each December, the New York String Orchestra Seminar (NYSOS)—one of the country’s most respected training programs—offers exceptional string, wind, brass, and timpani students 16 to 23 years of age a ...

From this 1,000-square foot shop in Westminster comes a product coveted by musicians all over the world. Eric and Michele Trujillo are the owners of Mi Vida Strings, a shop that specializes in ...

A new conductor has taken over the baton for the Gaston String Orchestra. Faith Foster was selected as conductor after an extensive search by the Gastonia-based community orchestra, which is in its ...

Haiying Chen was watching her two violinist sons practice with an orchestra for a Chinese New Year performance when the conductor called out the tambourine players for trying to silence the metal ...