Italian baroque composer, violinist and music theorist Giuseppe Tartini was born on April 8, 1692 in Pirano, Republic of Venice. His musical training began at a

  “I’ve often been labeled as a Baroque violinist,” Wong recently told The Violin Channel. “And while I do play Baroque violin and the music associated

A student of Miriam Fried at the New England Conservatory, SooBeen is a former major prize winner at the Menuhin and David Oistrakh International Violin Competitions.

The 1715 'Lipinski' Stradivarius, on indefinite loan to Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Frank Almond, has been stolen during a violent armed robbery, on Monday evening. Mr Almond was attacked with a stun gun and robbed of the instrument, his bows and case in a parking lot near the Wisconsin Lutheran College, in Milwaukee, just before 10.30pm.