From Pre-K to Curtis, Davin Mar charts his rise in classical music.
Violist Basil Vendryes will be the guest in an exciting afternoon of music as he joins William David in “An Afternoon of British Viola Music.” The program features music by Rebecca Clarke, Ralph ...
Adam Eccleston: Hello from All Classical Radio. I am Adam Eccleston, guest hosting for WQXR. Today I have a wonderful program of music that features the violin and the viola. We'll highlight both ...
This month, University of Arizona viola professor Molly Gebrian published a database of pieces for viola created by underrepresented composers. The database contains over 1,100 composers and ...
Garth Knox was born to play the viola. As a youngster, he already had two sisters who played violin and a brother who played cello. "So for the family string quartet," Knox says, "it was very clear ...
The dynamic violist Helen Callus seems determined to establish an ever-broader public appreciation for the solo and virtuoso potential of her instrument. Since joining the UCSB Music Department ...
Nora Taksdal plays the viola and is the principal violist of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra Nora Taksdal plays the viola – the slightly larger sibling of the violin – and is the principal violist of ...
At the Library of Congress last month, Roberto Díaz was playing on an exceedingly rare viola. What didn’t cross his mind, he says, is just how much the hunk of maple and spruce clutched beneath his ...
Last evening's program by a fine violist, Paul Doktor, and a muddy pianist, Yaltah Menuhin (fille), offered Brahma, Debussy, and Kabalevsky, all for the price of Hindemith. Hindemith's Sonata No. 1 ...
In a quiet corridor of Bach Mai Hospital, where urgency and anxiety usually define the atmosphere, an unexpected sound ...
Proving that music builds bridges across oceans, Chinese violist Tiezheng Shen lives in Tucson and teaches classical viola music to Mexican students in central Arkansas. Shen (since moving to the U.S.