Mathew M. Symons was interested in violins from a young age, but growing up in Henry County with Quaker parents it wasn't always easy to explore his passion. The first instrument he created – out of a ...

This week's show, from New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall in Boston, includes a 16-year-old violinist playing Gershwin, a teenage bassoonist... Stealing the Show with A Single String This week's ...

Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...

One day they’ll make beautiful music, but for the moment the slabs of mahogany, spruce and maple that Martin Brunkalla will fashion into violins are neatly stacked in his Marengo workshop. The only ...