Performers from the rock and folk worlds regularly try their hands at classical music, and the results are typically superficial, derivative or just plain hokey. But Chris Thile’s “Mandolin Concerto ...

Vivaldi was known to have benefited from several great violinists where he worked, at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. One in particular, by the name of Anna Maria, was the dedicatee of more than ...

The music of Israeli composer Avner Dorman is so vivacious and so technically proficient that it's hard to resist on a superficial level. All it needs to make it fly is some original musical ideas.

Much as Andres Segovia brought the classical guitar into the concert hall, the Israeli virtuoso Avi Avital is doing the same with the mandolin. On Thursday, Avital makes his Los Angeles Philharmonic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mandolinist Chris Thile performs in the West Coast premiere of his "Attention!" with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by ...

One might be forgiven, upon first listening to the NAXOS recording of Avner Dorman’s concertos performed by Andrew Cyr’s Metropolis Ensemble, for not feeling immediately convinced that these are, in ...

Music by the Katona Twins will be featured on the next episode of Fretworks The next Fretworks on Saturday evening at 7, will feature the Mandolin Concerto in Eb from the late 18th century by Giovanni ...

Avi Avital plays the mandolin sitting center stage in a hard-back chair. He curls into himself, his face turned downward, and nestles the small stringed instrument on his lap. His intense ...