Violist Basil Vendryes will be the guest in an exciting afternoon of music as he joins William David in “An Afternoon of British Viola Music.” The program features music by Rebecca Clarke, Ralph ...

Garth Knox was born to play the viola. As a youngster, he already had two sisters who played violin and a brother who played cello. "So for the family string quartet," Knox says, "it was very clear ...

At the Library of Congress last month, Roberto Díaz was playing on an exceedingly rare viola. What didn’t cross his mind, he says, is just how much the hunk of maple and spruce clutched beneath his ...

This month, University of Arizona viola professor Molly Gebrian published a database of pieces for viola created by underrepresented composers. The database contains over 1,100 composers and ...

Last evening's program by a fine violist, Paul Doktor, and a muddy pianist, Yaltah Menuhin (fille), offered Brahma, Debussy, and Kabalevsky, all for the price of Hindemith. Hindemith's Sonata No. 1 ...

Nora Taksdal plays the viola and is the principal violist of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra Nora Taksdal plays the viola – the slightly larger sibling of the violin – and is the principal violist of ...

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Vivian Van de Sype Cucu, Viola – Finalist in the 2025 Bolz Young Artist Competition. Vivian Van de Sype Cucu is a senior at University School of Milwaukee. She studies viola with Davis King and is a ...

Proving that music builds bridges across oceans, Chinese violist Tiezheng Shen lives in Tucson and teaches classical viola music to Mexican students in central Arkansas. Shen (since moving to the U.S.