NEW YORK -- Itzhak Perlman is one of the few remaining classical musicians who are not only respected by their peers but admired and even loved by a large general public. Millions of Americans who ...

A friend told me that Damien Escobar, the world-renowned violinist, was performing at a gala called Little Black Dress to celebrate and benefit the Legacy Foundation of Hartford. So I was prepared for ...

Violin great Regina Carter has earned worldwide acclaim — and national awards and honors — for her musical skill, vision and ability to shine as a soloist, band leader, composer and first-call ...

Time was when violin playing delighted the eye as well as the ear. According to an awed contemporary, the great Italian Virtuoso Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) startled his audiences with eyes “as red ...

BACK when Gidon Kremer was young, when the Latvian-born Tchaikovsky Competition winner was known as a “Russian” violinist, Herbert von Karajan called him the greatest violinist in the world. What the ...