American Music Institute will welcome Cathryn Cowell to its faculty. Ms Cowell will be available on Tuesdays at AMI's ...

Jo Bird's creative wings will not be clipped. While she plays the viola, she sees no reason to limit herself to classical music. Bird is co-founder of Two Star Symphony, a progressive classical ...

We’ll hear a thousand years of rich, deep music and history. The history of the viola. Garth Knox on the Medieval Fiddle (Dániel Vass / ECM Records) In the world of stringed instruments, the humble ...

A music lover with at least $45 million to fiddle around with can get their hands on the world’s most expensive instrument. Sotheby’s is hawking an incredibly rare viola, crafted in 1719 by the ...

How is a viola different from an onion? Nobody cries when you cut up a viola. In the hierarchical world of classical musicians, viola players have had, more than most, to bear the strings and arrows ...

As the year draws to a close, a new album has cast a fresh and unexpected light on our traditional music. Sligo fiddle player Séamus McGuire has taken the viola out from the shadows and placed it ...

Jordan Hall was packed on Monday night for the first mainstage concert of the Boston Early Music Festival, an evening of Mozart’s chamber music. The performers were all accomplished period instrument ...

Jennifer Stumm is known to the world as a viola player. But when she's talking about the instrument and its music she turns again and again to the character of its different voices. “I’m so inspired ...

Seattle’s Alex Guy is a total viola/violin whiz who has graciously lent her string chops to big shots like Amanda Palmer, Xiu Xiu, Laura Veirs, Mirah and Parenthetical Girls. But in Led to Sea, Guy’s ...