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, ...

Footpaths and a man-made stream bisect Anderson Park, an open grassy area in the middle of the Aspen Ideas Festival campus. An 800-pole bamboo sculpture was under construction nearby where Nickel ...

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 ...

Modern master of the mandolin Chris Thile hates being boxed in by genres, and has made his reputation by going beyond traditional tunes. With a new album of works by Bach, the virtuoso easily moves ...

Grammy-winning mandolin player Chris Thile is out with a new album. This time he is taking the music of J.S. Bach to different locations. It's easy to think of classical music as being confined to a ...

LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: The mandolin is one of the most precise and delicate musical instruments, producing a unique sound favoured by many country and bluegrass musicians. American Chris Thile is one ...

We meet young musicians from all over the country, from South Carolina to California. A 17-year-old cellist fulfills a childhood dream to be on From the Top and kicks off the program with a gorgeous ...

After many years of living in France, fretted string virtuoso Robin Bullock now calls Black Mountain home. He is often elsewhere, however, performing as a soloist or accompanist or teaching at music ...

The baroque composer J.S. Bach never wrote for the mandolin. But Chris Thile has found a way around that. Along with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and bassist Edgar Meyer, Thile arranged a number of compositions ...

Modern master of the mandolin Chris Thile hates being boxed in by genres, and has made his reputation by going beyond traditional tunes. With a new album of works by Bach, the virtuoso easily moves ...