Born into a musical family in Transylvania, Hungarian violin virtuoso Joseph Szigeti was immediately recognized as a child prodigy. He moved to Budapest with his

  Polish-born violinist Michel Schwalbé began violin lessons at the age of eight with Maurycy Frenkel in Warsaw. Due to the Second World War, he fled

Antonio Stradivari made almost a thousand instruments, about 650 of which survived. The 1718 "Ex-Benno Walter" was made during a pinnacle of the violin maker’s career

The Violin Channel, in conjunction with our good friends at Alpha Classics, is this week giving away five autographed copies of VC Artist Kerson Leong's newly-released "Ysaÿe