Iryna Krechkovsky, a concert violinist in residence at UC Irvine, has her hands on a 324-year old Stradivarius violin estimated to be worth $5 million. Iryna Krechkovsky, a concert violinist in ...

Grammy Award-winning violinist Miri Ben-Ari returns to Washington on Saturday at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in “The Beautiful Sound Tour.” Noted for the unique sound she has created — a ...

Rarely has America sounded so beautiful. A naturalization ceremony in Manhattan transformed into a stirring classical concert Wednesday when an internationally renowned violinist played a rendition of ...

The Swedish soprano Miah Persson is a pretty big deal in Europe, but not very well-known on these shores. That should change in a hurry. Salzburg audiences not only know her, but adore her. For ...

Nicola Benedetti seems to be living a charmed life. At 25 she is gorgeous, has an exciting international performance career and an album — 2012’s release The Silver Violin — that’s topped classical ...

Few things thrill musicians more than having pieces written expressly for them. But little could have prepared Leila Josefowicz for the violin concerto Steve Mackey composed for her. Mackey had ...

Violinist Joshua Bell describes himself as being in “the honeymoon stages” of his relationship with his new partner, the 1713 “Gibson” Stradivarius he met in London and acquired for about $4 million ...

While playing piano in public, a violinist joined me and the result was an emotional, spontaneous performance that caught ...

CHICAGO -- Above the noise of Chicago's subway, passengers can sometimes hear beautiful violin music. Most often on the Washington Blue Line platform. Maurice Javier Hubbard is a music maker. His ...

Rachel Barton Pine records Bach's solo violin partitas and sonatas at St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Chicago Violinist Rachel Barton Pine’s playing isn’t the only sound you hear on her new ...

It was prized, stolen and disguised — after helping its owner and Albert Einstein spirit dozens of musicians out of Hitler’s Germany. No wonder Joshua Bell cherishes the 300-year-old Stradivarius ...