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 ...

If the sound of “quartetto romantico” strikes an appealing chord within, then the combined richness of bowl-back mandolins, mandola and classical guitar is sure to please aficionados of string ...

More than virtually any other instrument, the mandolin stands for different things depending on time and place. In the 18th century it was the preserve of the wealthy in salons across Europe; by the ...

The Classical Mandolin Society of America will convene in Kansas City Nov. 8 to 12, with some free concerts included. Casey Toth Raleigh News & Observer It’s hard to imagine, but there was a time when ...

To say Brian Oberlin is smitten with the mandolin is an extreme understatement. The award-winning performer plays baroque, romantic, swing, bluegrass, contemporary, classical, Cajun and folk music, ...

NO ITALIAN SERENADE WOULD BE complete without one, but the mandolin has otherwise been to classical music what Lillian Gish was to movies: a ubiquitous, wildly popular player long ago, fondly ...

Music tends to be labeled according to genre, oftentimes pigeonholing performers in one area of concentration when in reality they may happen to be versatile musicians with open minds and an ...

Dennis White has been making up tunes ever since he learned to play the piano at 5 years old, sharing a bench with his mother. He would play many more instruments as he got older, and for many years ...

Performing, writing and teaching jazz mandolin for nearly five decades, Don Stiernberg said he owes much of his success to his brother, John Stiernberg, and his teacher, Jethro Burns. Don Stiernberg, ...