We often think of traditional Scottish music performed in an ensemble with fiddle, pipes (either Highland or border style), a piano or perhaps a guitar or bouzouki and, on occasion, harp. But the ...

The Billings Ceilidh Fiddlers and The Billings Youth Orchestra are presenting a concert and workshop featuring Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser and cellist Natalie Haas. Both events will take place on ...

Today’s Video of the Day is a performance of Gabriella Smith’s ‘Anthozoa for Violin, Cello, Piano, and Percussion’. Named after a class of marine invertebrates that include sea anemones and coral, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Classical-music insiders were quick to peg Alisa Weilerstein as an unusually promising talent in her teens, but the 26-year-old cellist’s already fast-rising ...

DETAILS: Master Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser and cellist Natalie Haas, one of the most sought-after cellists in Celtic music today, team up for this concert. Advance tickets are $23, $20 for ...

OF all Brahms's concertos, the one for violin and cello is the most problematical. This performance, given by the Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, put forward a persuasive solution. The ...

Yo-Yo Ma’s instrument of choice is a 300-year-old Stradivarius cello. But you can’t accompany a Mongolian long song on a Strad. For that, you need a morin khuur. It has a long thin neck, a trapezoidal ...

Having earned her chops as fiddle player and vocalist with Beoga over 20 years, and co-written and performed with Ed Sheeran, headlining with him at Glastonbury, Niamh Dunne has taken her time in ...

What beginner cellists aren't told when they first pick up the instrument is, if they are talented, someday they may have to pay double at the airline counter.String instruments are typically quite ...

CHARLESTON, W. Va (Reuters Life!) - Harold Hayslett had a career as a pipefitter and fought in France in World War II, but he's famous for carving cherished cellos and violins from the trees of ...