When I was in elementary school, my mother signed me up for piano lessons. I would be lying if I said I enjoyed every minute of it; sometimes, it was an absolute nightmare playing a measure over and ...

With #100daysofpractice, the star violinist has drawn back the veil for professionals and amateurs alike on a private, untaught part of musical life. Hilary Hahn posts candid videos of her practicing ...

Playing the violin had never been easy, but she didn't remember it being this hard. In childhood, Dubai-based Yashvi Dhanak had never missed a note on the violin. Instinctively, she knew how to wrap ...

Gregor Huebner's latest CD is not so much an album as a travel narrative. On "El Violin Latino" (Timba). The German violinist and composer, who makes his home in Harlem, retraces the evolution of a ...

It didn’t matter to six-year-old Nora Mendelson that no one else was in earshot recently when she told her mom, Cathy Humikowski, that she had a “secret idea.” “We were outside, and nobody was there, ...