After many years of living in France, fretted string virtuoso Robin Bullock now calls Black Mountain home. He is often elsewhere, however, performing as a soloist or accompanist or teaching at music ...

What would Johann Sebastian Bach make of a goat rodeo? There can be little doubt that the greatest composer ever would have been unfazed hearing his music played by a trio of cello, mandolin and bass, ...

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma (@YoYo_Ma), mandolinist Chris Thile (@christhile) and bassist Edgar Meyer (@EdgarMeyerJr) enjoy playing together — in 2011, they teamed up with Stuart Duncan for "The Goat Rodeo ...

Chris Thile plays Portland's Alberta Rose Theatre on Oct. 2, 2013. (Cassandra Jenkins) , the Grammy winning mandolin virtuoso, takes on a new challenge when he plays the Alberta Rose Theatre, ...

In this DW Festival Concert we'll hear mandolin superstar Avi Avital join forces with the string quartet Brooklyn Rider to present old, new and genre-blending works at the 2023 Beethoven Festival in ...

Avi Avital is one of the world's leading classical mandolinists, gracing concert halls from Tel Aviv to Munich to New York. But the young Israeli says he discovered the mandolin only by coincidence.

During this concert, Avital spoke about the mandolin’s identity conflict. A staple instrument of classical music in the 17th and 18th centuries, it is now more closely associated with folk. In his ...

AVI Avital is doing for the mandolin what Andreas Segovia did for the classical guitar — lifting the instrument from being an occasional curiosity to a concert hall star. He’s doing it by combining ...