Rachel Barton Pine  has one of the most eclectic, unconventional and interesting careers of all violinists – whether playing thrash-metal...

My interview with Vilde Frang for the cover of the November issue of BBC Music Magazine has just come out, as she releases her...

Two weeks of music, sun, wine and good company in France? Yes, please! Summer festivals are one of the perks of being a classical...

INTERVIEW Making mistakes, giving everything and leaving ego at the door: concertmaster Andrej Power offers his insights into the skills...

Edward Dusinberre describes the benefits of ageing, offers advice to students about how to find their own sound and explains why talking...

OPINION: Far from its reputation as exclusive, classical music is often itself excluded from mainstream culture. As more young people...

A week in the magical musical bubble of St Endellion’s Easter Festival offered a hopeful vision of grass-roots classical music in the UK...

Two Australian orchestral violinists have found millions of fans for classical music with their hilarious and geeky videos. I went to the...

Newark School of Violin Making has an alumni list that reads like a Who’s Who of the violin world. As it celebrates its 50th anniversary,...

For the first stop of my Interrail trip, I make a beeline for Beethoven’s home city of Bonn and find him around every corner I love...

Artificial intelligence impersonations of human writing are very good – and that’s why this writer isn’t afraid of them There’s lots of...

A plea to end the wispy-bulgy school of violin playing Is there a particular sound that makes you reach for the radio off button? For me,...

The death of violin expert Norman Rosenberg marks the end of an era and raises questions for the violin world There are some people who...

Very sad news has come through that the great violin pedagogue Sheila Nelson died on 16 November, at the age of 84. By rights, Sheila...

Charlie Chaplin‘s 1917 film about the journey to Ellis Island is as funny and moving today as it must have been to the audiences who saw...

In this article, originally commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music, violinist and pedagogue György Pauk explains some of the most...

In this article, originally commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music, violinist and professor Giovanni Guzzo describes his teaching...

In this article, originally commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music, the double bass professor and Principal Bass of the Royal...

Shmuel Ashkenasi led the legendary Vermeer Quartet for nearly 30 years. In this interview, first published by ChamberStudio, he offers...

Diana Cummings comes from a musical dynasty, and her career spans solo, chamber and orchestral playing. Since 1982 has been a professor...