At first blush, Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin played on the humble mandolin might be akin to making a Rusty Nail with single-malt scotch. A successful performance will require, at the ...

UCSB Arts & Lectures will present mandolin virtuoso, composer and vocalist Chris Thile, returning with a program of his arrangements of Bach sonatas and partitas, as well as his own compositions, at 7 ...

Thile was a prodigy with Nickel Creek at age 8, a founding member and lead vocalist of the Punch Brothers, has won multiple Grammys and is a... Chris Thile Looks Back To Bach There's the mandolin — ...

Lobero LIVE is thrilled to welcome back mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015, at 7 p.m. A four-time Grammy-winner and founding member of contemporary bluegrass bands Nickel Creek and ...

What is it about Bach's music that makes it almost failure-proof in the hands of a skilful transcriber? Bach himself was always transcribing his own work, and others have been busy at the task ever ...

Once again, the protean malleability of J.S. Bach's genius is demonstrated by the unusual transcription of his work - in this case, the Violin Sonatas and Partitas - to another instrument, the ...

1 Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001: I. Adagio 2 Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001: II. Fuga: Allegro 3 Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001: III. Siciliana 4 Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001: IV.

Chris Thile has never been shy about genre-hopping. In his early 20s, singing and playing with the band Nickel Creek, the mandolin virtuoso covered songs by slacker-rock heroes Pavement, picking along ...