SEAL BEACH — When your father plays violin, your brother plays violin, your cousins play violin and your aunt plays viola, clearly the sounds of strings run deep in the family. So it was only natural ...

The Internet makes it official: I’m not the only one. As the newly christened 416th member of the “Looney Tunes introduced me to classical music” Facebook group, I take solace. Now I know there are ...

Smooth or textured, white or black, geometric or sinuous, Bourieau’s ensemble of sculptures point to a new way of sculpting – with robots. Each hewn from a single block of stone using an intriguing ...

SEQUIM — Faith Lutheran pastor Roger Stites reflected on a challenge that has become all too familiar for congregations across the country: the scarcity of skilled church musicians, especially those ...

STRING THEORY: A classically trained harpist, Tori Parrish earns the majority of their living composing custom music experiences for weddings. Photo by Connie Henshaw Franklin Keel fondly remembers ...

A classically trained flutist, the singer, rapper and songwriter spent more than three hours admiring the flute collection at the Library of Congress. Madison’s instrument was made for the second ...

As three parents with backgrounds in classical music, Betsy Rogue may come as a bit of a surprise. Self-described as “your mom’s mixtape,” Liz Rognes, Heather Montgomery and Jerilynn Harris don’t ...

Besides playing cello with Oakland Symphony and the Santa Rosa Symphony, Rebecca Roudman likes to rock out with her acclaimed San Francisco-based band Dirty Cello. Bringing Dirty Cello back to the ...

Appreciating Katinka Kleijn’s cello playing is an exercise in active listening, feeling, and imagining possibilities—in other words, an opportunity to be fully present. It is also a lesson in empathy, ...

Seung-taek Lee, “Drawing” (1966) (all images courtesy of Lévy Gorvy) Lee, born in 1932 in Kowon in the region of South Hamgyeong-do above the 38th parallel, has always been a solitary artist, ...