Avi Avital is the featured performer in "InstaConcerto for Mandolin and Orchestra," a 75-second concerto written for Instagram. Harald Hoffman/Deutsche Grammophon What do you think of when you think ...

You’ve probably heard the mandolin, but you may NOT have heard music by Johann Sebastian Bach played on the mandolin. Avi Avital wants to change that. Hear Avi Avital play his arrangement of one of ...

More than virtually any other instrument, the mandolin stands for different things depending on time and place. In the 18th century it was the preserve of the wealthy in salons across Europe; by the ...

The results of The Hindu Margazhi Classical Music Competition are finally out. The newspaper received around 800 entries from participants across the world, some from as far as Tokyo, Switzerland, ...

To encompass three centuries of music in one hour is a feat in itself, and the concert, Journey through Italy: The Golden Age of the Mandolin, lived up to expectations. Organized by the Calcutta ...

During this concert, Avital spoke about the mandolin’s identity conflict. A staple instrument of classical music in the 17th and 18th centuries, it is now more closely associated with folk. In his ...

Starting with a childhood immersed in classical music and years playing in orchestras on violin and viola, I discovered the mandolin at age 13 after hearing Nickel Creek. My journey into woodworking ...

One was a firefighter and the other traded in his electric guitar for a classical one. Carlo Aonzo (mandolin) and Lorenzo Bernardi (guitar) were in Calcutta in February to perform their project, ...