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 ...

The Elmhurst musician — the first professional Black musician to play a violin made by a Black luthier — will take the ...

The solo violin playing then turns spiky and skittering—much more modern sounding even as the background orchestral sounds maintain its pastoral calm.

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.

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 ...

Miriam Fried, one of the world’s pre-eminent violinists, returns to Curtis to shepherd the students through Johann Sebastian Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violin. The sonatas and partitas for ...

"Vili: Concerto for Violin Alone" is an extreme concerto in which its player must simultaneously play the solo and orchestra parts. Aired 01/09/2017 | Expires 10/19/2028 | Rating TV-G ...

Zbigniew Seifert: Solo Violin album review by Ian Patterson, published on May 18, 2018. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!

Morimur: Bach Chaconne for solo violin and Bach chorales Christoph Poppen, violin; Hilliard Ensemble (ECM New Series). Welcome inside the head of J.S. Bach. The composer often embedded familiar ...

As a first violinist for New York City Ballet for nearly 40 years, Paul Peabody has played plenty of romantic music, from Faure to Prokofiev to Tchaikovsky. He also created a violin solo on one of ...