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) ...

18th century solo and ensemble concertos, including the Vivaldi violin concerto in A Minor RV 356 performed by Augusta McKay Lodge. Voices of Music is offering three concert series this season and is ...

You might not know much about Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, but you’d undoubtedly recognize some of its hummable melodies, which after 300 years are more inescapable now than ever. For his senior recital ...

Toronto Symphony Orchestra Violin Sergei Nikonov returns to the Star with another seasonal instalment of Vivaldi’s perennially popular “The Four Seasons.” This week, with the iconic first movement of ...

Jonathan Yuen Siu-him, not Jonathan Yuen Yee-hang, performed the encore. Just how interchangeable are the skills of a viola player and a violinist? In a concert with the Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra, ...

In the 18th century, travelers came from all over Europe to hear Anna Maria and Chiara perform in Venice. Neither attained the wealth or the immortal fame of someone like Paganini, but composers ...

Watch these talented virtuosos balance and bow on a 12-metre floating violin winding its way around the picturesque Italian city. Venetian artist and sculptor Livio De Marchi has for decades created ...

I teach violin in Beverly Hills, and this summer I received an unusual request. Jonathan Hollander, a choreographer and founder of the nearly 40-year-old Battery Dance Company in New York, contacted ...

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Two previously unknown violin compositions by Antonio Vivaldi have been discovered in a manuscript collection in the U.K. The sonatas have been authenticated by Vivaldi expert Michael Talbot, a ...