Nashville Symphony audiences see musician Peter Otto playing the violin onstage at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. But it's what they can't see that earned him the title of concertmaster. Otto, a ...

Knoxville Symphony Orchestra violinists chose which historic violin they'll play at the March 5 and April 8 Violins of Hope: Strings of the Holocaust performances. Shaub's lengthy and close personal ...

DENVER — Music can transport people to different places and new worlds. It has certainly done that and more for Yumi Hwang-Williams. “Ultimately we become musicians because we love music and we want ...

For this season, the orchestra is recruiting string players for regular membership, and wind and brass substitute musicians, as well as a new concertmaster.

Whereas the role of the concertmaster — the first chair in the first violin section, and what the British call the “leader of the orchestra” — is more collaborative, “more of a facilitator between the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio --After 15 months in the role, David Radzynski has stepped down from the post of Concertmaster for The Cleveland Orchestra. This change was effective March 3. A concertmaster is the ...

It's not yet official that violinist Frank Huang will be leaving Houston to join the New York Philharmonic. Since the fall, he's been trying out the chair he was offered in the orchestra - the ...

One of Denise Dillenbeck’s earliest memories of the violin was hearing Itzhak Perlman play on "Sesame Street." She still remembers the way the sound reached out and touched her heart through the ...

THE BASICS: Violinist Nikki Chooi plays Behzad Ranjbaran’s Violin Concerto at Kleinhans as JoAnn Falletta also conducts the BPO in Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1 and Glinka’s Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila ...