Before running her own music education nonprofit, Portia Dunkley was a 6th grade student in Miami who wanted to play the violin. She rushed to her teacher to sign up for the music program, but she ...

A macaroni box on a stick. That's where it starts for first-year students learning how to play violin in the Suzuki violin program, a specialized and increasingly popular system that teaches young ...

With influences ranging from Shostakovich and Bach to Nas and Jay-Z, stereotype-smashing Black Violin breaks the rules, blending classical, hip-hop, rock, R&B, and bluegrass to create a sound they ...

Maybe none of them will grow up to be the next Itzhak Perlman, but a group of Osceola County, Fla., pre-K students are getting a head start on their education through violin lessons. About 80 at-risk ...

It's ironic that while violins are popular instruments for children to learn to play, they can also be pricey. The Montreal-based AVIVA Young Artists Program has set out to change that, by creating an ...

At the beginning of my violin studies, my father, whom Grandpa taught, frequently practiced with me. Practices had the gravity of carrying on a Bolton family tradition — even as a child, I knew that.