Laurie Niles founded Violinist.com with her husband, Robert, in 1996. The website offered Laurie the perfect opportunity to blend her skills as a formally trained professional violinist and a former ...

With so much muttering about the irrelevance of classical music to young lives, a story in which young violinists are given ...

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 ...

Welcome to "For the Record," Violinist.com's weekly roundup of new releases of recordings by violinists, violists, cellists and other classical musicians. We hope it helps you keep track of your ...

It's the end of the season, end of the school year: peak time for big concerts and recitals that feel like a culmination to ...

Very often, musical ability seems to run in families. It's probably a combination of nature and nurture - a fundamental urge ...

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

In early May when he was in Southern California to play Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the <a href=" Symphony, ...

Congratulations to the winners in the 52st annual <a href=" Chamber Music Competition, in which dozens of ensembles from ...

Following a troubling 10-year period in which its accreditation was called into question, on Friday the <a href=" Institute ...

GENE WIE enjoys an international career as a conductor and performer of violin, viola, clarinet, saxophone, and trumpet, with over twenty years of experience as a full-time K-12 educator. He directs ...

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 ...