Laurie Niles founded Violinist.com with her husband, Robert, in 1996. The website offered Laurie the perfect opportunity to blend her skills as a formally trained professional violinist and a former ...

I teach online. I have found this to be quite effective. By the way, I am a graduate of the Royal College of music and London University. You can learn about the way I teach and approach the violin by ...

A documentary about the first female full-time member of the New York Philharmonic has been nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Film - <a href=" Only Girl in the Orchestra is one of ...

I have been an amateur violinist since the 1960's (violist since 1980) and have played in many, many orchestras first in Cambridge (UK), later in London and most recently in Maidstone where I was ...

Greetings everyone - I just wanted to let you know that things have calmed down a lot here in Pasadena, and the Eaton Canyon ...

For many of us who play music by canonical composers like Mozart, the notated score is sacred. Our job as performers, we ...

Welcome to "For the Record," Violinist.com's weekly roundup of new releases of recordings by violinists, violists, cellists ...

Violinist.com editor Laurie Niles' coverage of the biennial symposium for advanced violin pedagogy, held at The Juilliard School in New York. Coverage below includes the 2023, 2021, 2019, 2017, 2015, ...

Violinist <a href=" Ehnes has signed a new eight-year contract to serve as the <a href=" Chamber Music Society's Gilbert ...

In an effort to promote the coverage of live violin performance, Violinist.com each week presents links to reviews of notable ...

Some 100,000 scores by Arnold Schoenberg were lost in the Palisades fire last week in Los Angeles. The fire destroyed the ...