All-star guest performers include local favorite Martha Bassett as well as Mike Baggetta, Eddie Barbash, Casey Driessen and legend Bernard “Pretty” Purdie — most recorded drummer on Earth ...

The elder Amoroso served as a member and solo cellist with the Air Force Band before earning music degrees in college. He has performed with Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr., and toured with Burt ...

When you watch a jazz pianist, it’s easy to focus on the notes but there’s so much happening behind the keys. This is true ...

The Minnesota Orchestra and its music director, Thomas Søndergård, are having some increasingly high-profile experiences together. Not only are they presenting some impressive large-scale masterpieces ...

Ravinia Music Festival has released its full 2026 schedule Thursday. This year's lineup includes Paul Simon, Gladys Knight, Bonnie Raitt, Brandi Carli ...

Music Director Emeritus for Life Riccardo Muti Returns to Chicago for Three Weeks of Programs with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra including Rossini's Stabat mater with the Chicago Symphony Chorus Jean ...

Luca Ciarla redraws the borders of jazz violin with a loop pedal, his voice and a wise use of electronics. He performs the entire score of his band in solo, playing the violin also like a guitar, a ...

Violinist Nathan Cole was named first associate concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2011. Not long afterward, he was assigned the prominent violin solo for a performance at the Hollywood ...

The International Violin Competition of Indianapolis' coming season will deliver the classical masterpieces audiences have come to expect. But across the fall of 2025 and first half of 2026, several ...

Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, Only two of Bach's solo violin concertos have survived intact, and only one - the A minor, BWV 1041 - survives in autograph. However, one considers the ...

Leonidas Kavakos walks onstage, a presence unlike any other superstar violinist. Over 6 feet tall, fashionably dressed in black and sporting a wry smile, he nevertheless looks a bit awkward, carrying ...