You don’t see many concert cellists who also write music. If those talents are combined, they are usually in someone who is a composer first and a cellist second. Luigi Boccherini, Heitor Villa-Lobos, ...

Joshua Roman performing at a second dress rehearsal at TED2024: The Brave and the Brilliant, on Monday, April 15, 2024. It was a Friday night after cellist and composer Joshua Roman performed ...

Since childhood, Joshua Roman's life revolved around the cello. But when long COVID forced him to set his cello aside, he had ...

What does a string quartet do when one of its members is too sick to play? If they’re lucky enough to be at a music festival, they can ask someone else there to substitute. That’s just what happened ...

22-year-old composer Aidan Vass, whose work is published with Hal Leonard and Santa Barbara Music Publishing, had the idea ...

SANTA CRUZ — July 29 will mark the kickoff of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, a two-week celebration of symphonic music featuring performances of compositions from throughout the world.

The composer, who turns 90 this fall, has expanded the spectrum of sounds that instruments produce and that audiences can perceive.

John Williams has written so many of the movie scores that have gotten stuck in your head over the years... (SOUNDBITE OF JOHN WILLIAMS' "STAR WARS (MAIN TITLE)") KELLY: ...Like the theme to "Star ...

Every so often in a musician's life, there comes along a project that marks a turning point and defining moment in the artist's career. For Katie Tertell, an American cellist based in England, it all ...

Lakewood Cultural Center Presents Canellakis-Brown Duo Cellist Nicholas Canellakis and pianist-composer Michael Stephen Brown curate an eclectic program featuring time-loved classics, little-known ...

On a new album, the classical stars revisit the concerto Williams composed specifically for Ma, as well as some of Williams' most affecting film scores. The pair sat down with All Things Considered's ...