Can any violinist truly conquer this diabolical instrument's formidable technique, to the point where it simply sings, ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: <a href=" Wetzel is a longtime violist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic and also teaches at the Colburn School.

I started violin lessons and piano lessons at the age of 5. When I left home for college in 1983, I kept up with piano as a staff accompanist in the Music Department at Hope College, and as a jazz ...

I teach online. I have found this to be quite effective. By the way, I am a graduate of the Royal College of music and London University. You can learn about the way I teach and approach the violin by ...

The Utah-based <a href=" Music Festival has named violinist Tessa Lark as its next Artistic Director. The festival began in ...

In an effort to promote the coverage of live violin performance, Violinist.com each week presents links to reviews of notable ...

Where do you direct your eyes, when you are playing from memory? The eyes can greatly help in analyzing how your left hand is ...

Bored on a plane Sunday as I came home from a Christmas trip to the Midwest, I scrolled through dozens of movie and ...

Welcome to "For the Record," Violinist.com's weekly roundup of new releases of recordings by violinists, violists, cellists ...

Although I am not really a violin player,(I'm a clavichord and harpsichord player)I run a violin restoration workshop, called Taylor's Fine Violins, out of my house in Redlands. I have invested buying ...

Which violin strings are the best? There are no one-size-fits-all answers. Each violin reacts differently to different brands of strings. One type of string may sound amazing on one instruments but ...

The concepts illustrated in this short paper have been expressed by fine teachers for many years. However, many players still struggle with incorrect posture and a lack of ease of playing. By ...