The Dutch ex-punk and Jim Jarmusch bandmate talks about his passion to free up a hidebound repertoire and make its strings ‘a real pop instrument’ ...

Has a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin worth $10 million and stolen by the Nazis during World War II turned up in France?

A rare Stradivarius violin, the "Joachim-Ma Stradivarius", fetched $11.3 million at auction in New York in February. The most ...

From pop to prog, keyboard maestro Geoff Downes charts his journey from auditioning for Wizzard to global success with the ...

A talented group of musicians, including conductor Liu Sha, the Central Ethnic Orchestra, the Traditional Chamber Orchestra ...

Ringo Starr, crooner. It’s not everyone’s first go-to when we’re talking about someone who has rightly earned a reputation as ...

UCSB Arts & Lectures will present Kronos Quartet, 6 p.m. Saturday, May 2 at UCSB Campbell Hall. The evening with the trailblazing Kronos Quartet ...

Yes. My first violin, bought at the age of 12, was €10,000. It took me months of busking around the ages of 12/13 to pay for ...

Earl Lee as a child didn't want to play the piano and had a medical issue with his left hand. Now, he's music director of the ...

Samuel Hollister, assistant conductor for t Symphony Orchestra, had a challenge for his first concert conducting the orchestra onstage at Powell Hall in a subscription series. When he stepped in at ...

Home run! Steve Poltz is back in San Diego just in time to accept a major award ...