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 ...

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 ...

Zuill Bailey says he’ll bring classical music anywhere. And he does it all the time as artistic director of the Mesa Arts ...

Cellist-composer Mike Block explains an interesting concept to me: “There’s a strong improvisational tradition in Baroque music,” he says. “The notation was essentially a chord chart back then—we’re ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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.

Want to hear Taylor Swift’s hit song "Shake It Off" performed primarily by cellos? Of course you do. The Portland Cello Project makes that and many more dreams come true with a mixture of classical, ...

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 ...

A recent Wednesday, 9:39 p.m.: Cello Joe is anything but your typical cellist. That much became clear when he took a slug from a pint glass and announced to his audience in a Tenderloin bar that he ...