Galamian defines collé as "a short, precise stroke that starts from a prepared, controlled state at the beginning of the ...

Tell that to my left hand! A pencil sketch of Igor Stravinsky and Samuel Dushkin ... A few fun facts about Dushkin In ...

The instrument is meant to be placed on a table with the larger end toward the performer, and while the right hand plays the melody on the treble strings with a violin bow, accompanying chords are ...

Known particularly for his fiendish 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Paganini helped popularise certain string techniques such as bow bounces – spiccato – as well as left-hand pizzicato and harmonics. He ...

Violinist Andrew Bird answers the internet's burning questions about playing the violin. What is the secret to vibrato? Why are violins so expensive? Is there a trick to properly tuning a violin?

George Fisk’s violins are still adored by audiences all over the world as orchestras and soloists perform on these expertly ...

Australian violin duo TwoSet Violin ... However, there are now only 29 videos left on their YouTube channel and two posts left on their Instagram account, with just three posts each on the ...

But I broke my left wrist falling down a flight of concrete steps at 70, and the violin became its own kind of loss. The hand surgeon was terrific, offering options: the easy fix, which would leave ...

Great violins, cellos and pianos have been stolen more than once ... it was unusually symmetrical in design, which meant that for a left-handed player like him it looked better on stage. It is the ...

In his Violin Sonata No. 2 ... there’s a nod to Beethoven’s 5th heard low in the left hand. That da-da-da-daaa theme will eventually evolve into some of Ives’ most tender music in the ...

Castalian String Quartet players Sini Simonen [violin], Daniel Roberts [violin], Natalie Loughran [viola], and Steffan Morris ...

The traversal of Mozart’s complete works for violin and orchestra with Maxim Vengerov and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra ...