How about a little Elliott Carter as you sip your drink and nibble pretzels in a dimly-lit lounge? Don’t scoff. That’s the kind of ear-liberating musical experience you’d expect Matt Haimovitz to ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- A series of divine coincidences joined five students from across the country to form a band that makes classical music current. In the fall of 2011, Nathan Chan, Steven Bennett, ...

When the pandemic hit last year, cellist Matt Haimovitz admits that at first he felt paralyzed after being on the road touring and performing for more than three decades. He started wondering: What's ...

In 2011, Croatian cellists and longtime friends Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser spent $1,000 on a video of themselves performing their arrangement of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” and posted it to ...

Rebecca Roudman started playing the cello as a child growing up in Terra Linda, performed with the Marin Youth Orchestra, studied classical music in college, and is now a member of the Santa Rosa and ...

This week I attended a very unusual show that showed once again how music transcends all boundaries: music as universal language. The two artists on stage at the Skirball Cultural Center—thanks to ...

Classical guitar and cello will be featured at the Friends of the Rancho Bernardo Library’s Tuesday, Jan. 23 concert. Duo Alloro, with guitarist Fred Benedetti and cellist Erica Erenyi, will perform a ...

If comedian Rodney Dangerfield believed he got no respect, he should've tried working a cello into his act. “Even in classical music the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the ...

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The cello has long been regarded as the orchestral instrument with a sound that most closely resembles the range and timbre of the human voice. In the first part of the 18th century, composer J. S.