Yo-Yo Ma’s instrument of choice is a 300-year-old Stradivarius cello. But you can’t accompany a Mongolian long song on a Strad. For that, you need a morin khuur. It has a long thin neck, a trapezoidal ...

We often think of traditional Scottish music performed in an ensemble with fiddle, pipes (either Highland or border style), a piano or perhaps a guitar or bouzouki and, on occasion, harp. But the ...

Though he had studied classical music from the age of 3, and cello from the time he was 9, Rushad Eggleston wasn’t married to either. During Eggleston’s teens, the cello would spend months at a time ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Classical-music insiders were quick to peg Alisa Weilerstein as an unusually promising talent in her teens, but the 26-year-old cellist’s already fast-rising ...

When world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma visited the nearly completed Green Music Center in 2011, he did not bring either of his famous cellos: the Davidov Stradivarius crafted in 1712 or the Montagnana ...

The elder Amoroso served as a member and solo cellist with the Air Force Band before earning music degrees in college. He has ...

Joy Adams and Andy Reiner of the duo Half Pelican have a knack for balance – in music, life and adventures. The couple often treks up fourteeners carrying a cello, violin or other stringed instruments ...

GARRISON -- Arnie Anderson traveled halfway around the world to get an education in making violins. His daughter, Sarah, doesn't even have to leave her house to get the same education. Sarah, 20, has ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. You can’t play a cello without cello rosin, but shopping ...

Violinist Podger makes Bach’s suites sound as if they were written for her instrument, such is her buoyancy and agility Isn’t Rachel Podger a violinist? What’s she doing recording Bach’s Cello Suites?