Soon, Ritchie began playing baroque violin on a converted 18th-century instrument. Fast forward from 1970 to 2007. Now one of the country's leading performers and teachers of bar-oque violin, the ...

Chatham Baroque will welcome Grammy-award winning Baroque group, Apollo's Fire, for their "Violin Fantasy" performance. The program, an album release concert, will be held on February 18th, 4PM, at ...

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra this season offers a wide range of musical programs, including six intimate chamber presentations curated by Concertmaster and Director of Chamber Music Margaret Batjer, ...

The Baroque period is classical music’s gateway drug: Dance-like rhythms, sweet harmonies and lilting melodies make it easy to get hooked. New addicts often don’t know that underpinning every ...

Kev Marcus (Kevin Sylvester) and Wil B (Wilner Baptiste) were just kids when they met in the orchestra room at Dillard High School of the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale. The majority-black magnet ...

L’Harmonie des saisons, an early-music ensemble based in Granby, Québec, has sold out all seven of its Burlington concerts since its music director, Eric Milnes, first brought the lively and highly ...

Guest performance: Violinist Stefano Montanari and flautist Melissa Farrow with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.Steven Godbee Once a year Paul Dyer, the Brandenburg's artistic director, invites a ...

When Stefano Montanari was young he hated baroque music. It was always Bach, Handel and endless bad performances of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. He played the piano and dreamed of playing the trumpet.

Casting a spell over your audience as a violin virtuoso is remarkable enough. But some musicians are real overachievers. Take Dmitry Sinkovsky, who guests with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra (SSO) ...

Rachel Podger: Lucie Skeaping meets violinist Rachel Podger, who reflects on her highly successful career to date and her relationship with the baroque violin. Rachel Podger of the most creative ...