Is it a violin or a fiddle? If you’re Tessa Lark, it’s both. She’s a prize-winning classical violinist and accomplished fiddler. Hear her unrestrained artistry in the Fantasie by Franz Schubert.

Choosing an instrument. People were still talking as the first few notes of music filled the downstairs of Digital Motif on Gay Street. Shaub was tuning the violin he held in his hands.

Among the violins stolen was an 1823 Lorenzo Ventapane violin valued at $175,000 and an 1870 Gand & Bernardel violin values at $60,000. Two other violins and a bow worth a combined $100,000 were ...

The program, which started in the fall, provides free violin instruction to 14 students in grades 3–5. Thanks to a collaboration with the Williamsburg Regional Library, the students learned on ...

After “The Violin Conspiracy’s” 2022 release, thank-yous poured in. Slocumb heard from many Black musicians who said, “This is a story that I’ve been carrying along as well.

A secret note written by a man who was imprisoned inside a World War II concentration camp has been found inside a violin. Franciszek "Franz" Kempa built the instrument in 1941 while imprisoned by ...

“Trial instrument, made under difficult conditions with no tools and materials,” the worn note read. “Dachau. Anno 1941, Franciszek Kempa.” The origins of the violin, built in 1941 by Franciszek ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- A Cleveland Heights musician’s weekend kicked off on a sour note when his violin apparently was stolen, but as a new week begins, he still holds onto hope. Alan Choo ...

The note was written by Franciszek “Franz” Kempa, a Jewish prisoner of the Nazi concentration camp. He hid it inside a violin he had crafted under harrowing circumstances.