Performers from the rock and folk worlds regularly try their hands at classical music, and the results are typically superficial, derivative or just plain hokey. But Chris Thile’s “Mandolin Concerto ...

Mandolinist Chris Thile performs in the West Coast premiere of his "Attention!" with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Teddy Abrams at the Hollywood Bowl Thursday night (Genaro Molina/Los ...

Mike Marshall will give the Northwest premiere of his new mandolin concerto, accompanied by the Seattle Mandolin Orchestra, in a concert Monday in Edmonds. “This concert is a rare opportunity to hear ...

Chris Thile's love affair with the mandolin started early in life: at age two he fell for it when he heard the instrument played at a pizza place near his home. "It was small and high pitched, like me ...

Much as Andres Segovia brought the classical guitar into the concert hall, the Israeli virtuoso Avi Avital is doing the same with the mandolin. On Thursday, Avital makes his Los Angeles Philharmonic ...

The Romeros, the "Royal Family of the Guitar," have collectively and individually recorded much of the Spanish guitar literature, but they have also delved into related music as well. They recorded an ...

One might be forgiven, upon first listening to the NAXOS recording of Avner Dorman’s concertos performed by Andrew Cyr’s Metropolis Ensemble, for not feeling immediately convinced that these are, in ...

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 ...

When it comes to provocatively suggestive titles, composers’ intentions are seldom as successfully realized as with, say, Scriabin’s “Poem of Ecstasy” or P.D.Q. Bach’s affectionate Philip Glass parody ...