For many of us who play music by canonical composers like Mozart, the notated score is sacred. Our job as performers, we ...

Greetings everyone - I just wanted to let you know that things have calmed down a lot here in Pasadena, and the Eaton Canyon ...

Welcome to "For the Record," Violinist.com's weekly roundup of new releases of recordings by violinists, violists, cellists ...

Laurie Niles founded Violinist.com with her husband, Robert, in 1996. The website offered Laurie the perfect opportunity to blend her skills as a formally trained professional violinist and a former ...

I have been an amateur violinist since the 1960's (violist since 1980) and have played in many, many orchestras first in Cambridge (UK), later in London and most recently in Maidstone where I was ...

I am a modern violinist steeped in the world of modern string playing - so when the opportunity came up in 2024 to do a period recording of the two Mozart violin and viola duets, I was excited. And ...

My day job has never been music. As far as the music goes, I'm on an increasingly long sabbatical from an excellent semi-pro orchestra, but enjoying the resulting chance to practice and study solo ...

Some 100,000 scores by Arnold Schoenberg were lost in the Palisades fire last week in Los Angeles. The fire destroyed the ...

In an effort to promote the coverage of live violin performance, Violinist.com each week presents links to reviews of notable ...