Instead of sitting in on her 10-year-old’s violin lessons, Rochelle Thomsen of St. Paul decided she had to join in. “Our daughter Kiana really wanted to play the violin, she had been asking for quite ...

Exposing children to music at an early age has been widely known to bring about a host of benefits such as teaching patience, improving memory, instilling discipline and more. It is no wonder why ...

I held my breath and drew the bow across the strings. I was rewarded with some sweet notes, sprinkled with a few thin, random ones I wasn’t aiming for at all. Meanwhile, the tip of my bow had drifted ...

Have you ever yearned to play a violin like Leila Josefowicz or Paul Zukofsky but can't get beyond annoying scratchy squeals? Dr Dylan Menzies of the De Montfort University in Leicester, U.K., says ...

Rick Molzer had wanted to work on violins since he was 5, but he almost had his chance taken away by the draft. God saved his talents, he believes. As for Philip Ryan, he had never thought about ...