Oak Park resident Andrea Casarrubios is earning recognition for her music including being nominated for a 2025 Grammy Award.

A musician who was assaulted while performing in the New York City subway last week is now calling for increased safety measures for fellow artists. Iain Forrest, a 29-year-old electric cellist who ...

Strings and wood become harp and drum accompanying cellist Abel Selaocoe's chants and throat singing in his new album, Hymns of Bantu, out this month. It's just one of the many ways he makes alchemy ...

Tomeka Reid slides into a shadowy wood-paneled booth at Rodan. It’s clear that the Wicker Park gastropub isn’t how she remembers it. The stick-thin Woodlawn resident plunks down her cello, frowns at ...

Netflix’s much-talked-about musical has hit the screens, and a scene of Bach’s Prelude in C is raising more than a few eyebrows. Much ink has already been spilled documenting the dubious delights of ...

Drew Wiegman never took a formal music lesson, doesn’t read sheet music, and plays the cello entirely by ear. That hasn’t stopped more than three-quarters of a million people from following his ...

For her latest album, "Salt," cellist Maya Beiser draws an arc of female longing and defiance through the centuries. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SALT") HELGA DAVIS: (Singing) Mourn for my girls who would ...

Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who courageously fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, has died.

World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma brought his Bach Project to the sister cities of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on Saturday. The "Day of Action" featured performances in both cities to ...