The viola is the middle voice of the string family. It is slightly larger than a violin and has a lower and deeper sound than a violin. Since the 18th century it has been the middle or alto voice of ...

On Garth Knox's new album, Saltarello, the adventurous violist creates surprising musical juxtapositions. Garth Knox was born to play the viola. As a youngster, he already had two sisters who played ...

Liam Byrne plays the viola da gamba as both a soloist and with a variety of musical ensembles and artists, including the Dunedin Consort, Fretwork, and Crash Ensemble. In this programme Liam discovers ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Lawrence Power’s instrument has been overlooked throughout its history. He has made a career of changing that. By Hugh Morris Reporting from London ...

As associate principal violist with the Phoenix Symphony, Mesa’s Chiara Kingsley Dieguez gets to do what she loves for a living, as so many of us only wish we could. Her full-time job is playing the ...

Melody McKiver didn't grow up dreaming of the day they would become a solo electronic violist. Possibly nobody ever has before. Maybe every electro-violist's career is a kind of happy accident.

At the Library of Congress last month, Roberto Díaz was playing on an exceedingly rare viola. What didn’t cross his mind, he says, is just how much the hunk of maple and spruce clutched beneath his ...

In May, Roberto Díaz performed at the US Library of Congress using a rare viola made by Antonio Stradivari in 1690. Called the Tuscan-Medici viola, it is now valued at $30 million, possibly the ...