This is another in an occasional series that profiles local musicians, actors and dancers who normally are seen performing in a group or ensemble. Just as many couples are meant to be together, so too ...

A second bass might be in his near future. Once Zadinsky finds a buyer for his old instrument, the one that got him through lessons growing up in Seattle and five years at the Curtis Institute of ...

TIJUANATIJUANA — Andrés Martín, a double bass player with the Baja California Orchestra, always wished that music would take him places. That dream is about to become a reality — literally. The Buenos ...

NEW HAVEN -- The second event of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra's Family Concert Series showcases an instrument seldom featured, the bass, when "Greta's Dream" is performed at the Omni New Haven ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. There are more strings in the orchestra than all the other instruments put ...

Orchestras began tuning to the oboe, in part, because its sound was more penetrating in a performance setting than gut strings. There were also fewer oboes than violins, and in the earliest orchestras ...