Kenneth Goldsmith’s 1690 Albanus violin. Photo by St. John Flynn. This evening at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, faculty and students present “Sharing the Spotlight,” a recital of works ...

You’ve probably heard the mandolin, but you may NOT have heard music by Johann Sebastian Bach played on the mandolin. Avi Avital wants to change that. Hear Avi Avital play his arrangement of one of ...

"My dad played in the Queensland Mandolin Orchestra and I would go along with him to performances," Carroll says. "I started studying violin at University of Queensland last year but I switched to ...

Members of Early Music Princeton (EMP), directed by harpsichordist Wendy Young, perform vocal and instrumental repertoire spanning the centuries from Medieval and Renaissance to High Baroque, with a ...

Here, a lute is being crafted in a workshop. This week on Fretworks, I'll have some music for the mandolin and for the lute, as well as classical guitar. For good measure, there is also a piece for ...

To play Baroque music, artists usually use original instruments for an authentic sound. Many of these instruments are little known to a larger To play Baroque music, artists usually use original ...

Manoel Theatre has just inherited a number of rare and valuable instruments, left by George Debono, which date back to the Baroque era. The instruments include a Broadwood piano which dates back to ...