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 ...

The mandolin virtuoso takes on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach in an upcoming performance at the Flynn Main Stage in ...

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 ...

Here, a lute is being crafted in a workshop. This week on Fretworks, I'll have some music for the mandolin and for the lute, as well as classical guitar. For good measure, there is also a piece for ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Chris Thile does not try to hide his nervousness about tonight’s world premiere of his first orchestral work. The star mandolinist is all too aware of the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The mandolin has been around for four-plus centuries now, but the instrument never fully captured the imagination of the classical set. Over the years, ...

This Saturday at 7pm on Classical 101 on Fretworks, weâ ll hear from guitarist Jason Vieauxâ s brand new recording with music of Francesco Tarrega, and Antonio Carlos Jobim and Stanley Myersâ lovely ...

This is the second album from the 35-year-old Israeli mandolinist, who garnered a Grammy nomination with his debut album of self-transcribed Bach concertos in 2012. He goes deep into exploration mode ...

Americans were once mad for mandolins. Yet today, most have disappeared. We visit one of the remaining mandolin orchestras, which is celebrating its 90th birthday. Mandolin fever swept the United ...