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Musical studies began at the age of four with the piano and two years later, he started playing the violin. After just three years of violin lessons, he was admitted to the world renowned Yehudi ...

Lin Tokura 13, began playing the violin at age three and made her orchestral debut at 11. She has performed three recitals at Carnegie Hall in New York City and has been named Young Artist by both the ...

Before a capacity audience in Carnegie Hall, Yehudi Menuhin, twelve-year-old violinist, played with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestre on Thursday night. This was his second appearance ...

Very obvious, despite Menuhin’s contentions, was the need of editing. Most of the important violin concertos by great masters have either been edited by, or written in collaboration with, some ...

Her debut album, featuring the Szymanowski violin concerto she’d played to win Young Musician, shot straight in at No 2 in the classical charts.

The instrument was later used by Yehudi Menuhin, Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman. It recently became the most expensive violin in the world, selling for an estimated $16 million. Its new owner ...

Brahms’s Violin Concerto stands alongside Beethoven’s at the peak of the instrument’s repertoire. Charlotte Gardner makes a selection from almost a century of recordings Critics don’t always get it ...

Violinist and composer Yehudi Menuhin and activist Claudia Jones, known as “the founding spirit of Notting Hill Carnival”, will be honoured with blue plaques this year.

Violinist Nicola Benedetti reveals her most important cultural influences and experiences.