Oak Park resident Andrea Casarrubios is earning recognition for her music including being nominated for a 2025 Grammy Award.
When cellist Lynn Harrell would play “Kol Nidre” at his synagogue on Yom Kippur, he felt more than the notes and the melody. It was through the music that he discovered he wanted to become a Jew. “It ...
Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who courageously fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, has died.
Famed Cellist Yo-Yo Ma has a project dedicated to promoting and celebrating ecological healing. That led him to Glacier National Park to play for a herd of newly reintroduced bison. The cellist Yo-Yo ...
Netflix’s much-talked-about musical has hit the screens, and a scene of Bach’s Prelude in C is raising more than a few eyebrows. Much ink has already been spilled documenting the dubious delights of ...
So said my companion as we left the Ordway Concert Hall after Friday night’s St. Paul Chamber Orchestra concert. And I’m certain that feeling was shared by many an audience member in the concert’s ...
World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma brought his Bach Project to the sister cities of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on Saturday. The "Day of Action" featured performances in both cities to ...
Drew Wiegman never took a formal music lesson, doesn’t read sheet music, and plays the cello entirely by ear. That hasn’t stopped more than three-quarters of a million people from following his ...
Balancing an infant with a whirlwind career as one of classical music’s most in-demand cellists comes easily for Alisa Weilerstein. “Elina will be 4 months old on Tuesday and has been on 11 trips,” ...