Nathan Cole’s concertmaster solo at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s recent performance of Kevin Puts’ “The Brightness of Light” involved him tuning his violin loudly and intentionally amateurishly.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...