Icelandic cellist Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir arrived in Seattle last month to take a three-year artist-in-residence position at the University of Washington’s School of Music. But her cello was familiar ...

Musician Leyla McCalla won’t play it straight. On the cellist’s stunning debut, she doesn’t draw from that instrument’s common genre or adopt its conventional tone. She doesn’t even stroke its strings ...

Known widely as the “Cradle of Liberty,” Faneuil Hall has long been associated with Boston’s civic life and historical memory ...

When the global pandemic shut down concert halls and live performances last year, cellist Inbal Segev knew she couldn’t just sit at home and do nothing. That’s when she and her husband drafted a plan ...

It’s being called the “Sheku effect” -- the rise of young people in the United Kingdom signing up for classical music lessons to play the cello. Sheku Kannah-Mason is a 20-year-old acclaimed musician ...

For many listeners, classical music conjures up images of old men in powdered wigs, ballerinas in swan-like tutus, perhaps even a season or two of Bridgerton. The origins of classical music are rooted ...

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A classically trained pianist, Christopher O’Riley takes the stage at Meany Hall on the University of Washington campus and begins playing some elegant Shostakovich. The young audience listens quietly ...

Dirty Cello defies convention — and its members know it. As the Bay Area band returns to Napa for its upcoming performance at the Native Sons of the Golden West Hall on Saturday, April 26, lead ...

Radiohead’s 1997 album “OK Computer,” a masterpiece that explored fears of technology-driven human isolation and political angst approaching the 21st century, was largely, and ironically, recorded in ...

Could it be that Colorado's large bovine audience could benefit from a little more classical music? Danish cows are treated to concerts by students from the Scandinavian Cello School, and it's a joy ...