On Thursday and Friday evening at Baker-Baum Concert Hall, the La Jolla Music Society presented violinist Midori in the six Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin by Johann Sebastian Bach.
A member of the Polaris Dawn flight crew performed the first violin solo in space — appropriately to the tune of a “Star Wars” theme — after participating in the first-ever civilian spacewalk. After ...
When Sarah Gillis performed ‘Rey’s Theme’, a piece John Williams composed for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, her concert hall was a space capsule orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth. And it’s a ...
The ‘Star Wars’ franchise’s newest star is also a keen violinist – so movie music legend John Williams re-arranged his epic movie theme for solo violin, just for her. When launching a new television ...
What do you do when you’re performing a stirring violin solo before a concert crowd, and a string on your instrument suddenly breaks? That’s what happened with violinist Ray Chen, performing Thursday ...
Olivia Myers may speak softly — but she exudes plenty of emotion when playing her violin. The slight, red-haired 19-year-old draws a range of emotions as she plays the turbulent Mendelssohn Violin ...
A Russian takes on Spain, some French-infused Chinese music, Spanish-inspired French tunes — it was a celebration of musical appropriation this weekend with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Igor ...
Weston High School sophomore Ella Kim was selected as a Grand Prize Winner of the state-wide Boston Pops Orchestra/Fidelity Young Artist Competition and will perform as violin soloist together with ...