Who knew the venerable violin still had surprises in store for us, after nearly 500 years as one of the leading voices in music? An Australian master archetier, or bow-maker, has built a simple device ...

A new second violin in no way diminishes the quartet’s astounding unanimity and meticulous attention to detail – as this programme of Tchaikovsky and Brahms showed No ensembles have more delicately ...

Silesian Quartet - Witold Szalonek. Witold Szalonek: "1+1+1+1 per 1-4 strumenti ad arco" (versions for violin and cello and for the string quartet), "Symphony of Rituals" for string quartet. Silesian ...

These musicians came together in 1978 as students of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. The quartet's members perfected their skills during master classes lead by the members of ...

Watch these talented virtuosos balance and bow on a 12-metre floating violin winding its way around the picturesque Italian city. Venetian artist and sculptor Livio De Marchi has for decades created ...

A movie about one member of a famous New York City string quartet feeling inferior and making a power play doesn’t, on its face, sound enthralling. Sprinkle in some Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the ...

In the late 1970s, American composer Morton Feldman began writing exceptionally lengthy compositions. Not only did these works push the boundaries of traditional concert duration, but more importantly ...

When Melissa White was burgeoning as a young violinist growing up in Lansing, her mother, Regina, drove her to Chicago every weekend for music lessons. White was shy girl with big talent who continued ...

The trademark gondolas of Venice's Grand Canal played second fiddle this weekend to a very unusual vessel: A giant violin carrying a live string quartet. "Noah's Violin" is the most recent creation of ...

Violinist Nicolas Orbovich, artistic director for the Michigan City Chamber Music Festival, never planned to play the violin. “Both of my own parents came from poor families and never had the ...

With a running time of just over two hours, Morton Feldman's 1985 composition "Violin and String Quartet" is one of his longer ones, even though it falls far short of such pieces as 1984's "For Philip ...