Meg Okura, whose music encircles classical, jazz, and traditional fiddle styles, is bringing a trio to perform at 7:30 pm on ...

Improvisation has played a minor role in European classical music, but it’s the basis for seventeenth-century works composed in the Stylus Phantasticus genre—the so-called fantastic style that gets ...

A composer writes the notes; musicians play the notes. That's the current arrangement in the world of classical music, but it wasn't always so. Bach, Beethoven and Mozart were great composers, but ...

Before rock guitar gods roamed the earth, there were classical violin gods. When fiery fiddlers like Niccolo Paganini or Pablo de Sarasate were tearing it up in concert, rosin and horsehair flew into ...

Jennifer Hambrick (right), of Classical 101, recently interviewed jazz violionists Camille Vogley-Howes and her father, Christian Howes, when they performed in our studios. It's always a good time in ...

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IMPROVISATION, in the minds of most of today’s classical music mavens, is usually limited to jazz venues, piano bars or someone’s living room. This is to say, if any unfamiliar or ...

I hate to confess this, but I've never been that keen on Stephane Grappelli's playing, as masterful and brilliant as he assuredly was. ("He plays with an accent," violinist and Berklee professor Rob ...

Born in Germany, Helmut Lipsky studied violin with Abraham Comfort at the Winterthur Conservatory in Switzerland where he received degrees in performance and pedagogy. He continued his studies in New ...