Much as Andres Segovia brought the classical guitar into the concert hall, the Israeli virtuoso Avi Avital is doing the same with the mandolin. On Thursday, Avital makes his Los Angeles Philharmonic ...

nominee for Best Instrumental Performance with Orchestra. The 15-minute concerto was written for mandolin player Avi Avital, who recorded the work with the New York-based Metropolis Ensemble, Andrew ...

A long time ago there was a world where people went to what were called record shops. I once went to one that had a sale with such ridiculously low-priced bargains that I came away with bagfuls of ...

One might be forgiven, upon first listening to the NAXOS recording of Avner Dorman’s concertos performed by Andrew Cyr’s Metropolis Ensemble, for not feeling immediately convinced that these are, in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mandolinist Chris Thile performs in the West Coast premiere of his "Attention!" with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by ...

Avi Avital plays the mandolin sitting center stage in a hard-back chair. He curls into himself, his face turned downward, and nestles the small stringed instrument on his lap. His intense ...

The Romeros, the "Royal Family of the Guitar," have collectively and individually recorded much of the Spanish guitar literature, but they have also delved into related music as well. They recorded an ...