At first, Philip Quint was reluctant to play the violin. "I personally had no attraction to the violin when I started," he said. "I thought it was just some new toy that I would play for a while and ...

Andrew Wan, 25, the new concertmaster of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, was not your usual violin prodigy. To hear him tell it, he was no prodigy at all. "I was extremely lazy as a child," the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A violin prodigy from Portland will give her biggest performance Friday night at Portland State. Hanami Froom is only 10 but she’ll share the stage at Lincoln Hall with some of the ...

Sarah Chang was a kindergarten-age violin prodigy when she performed Max Bruch’s “Violin Concerto no. 1″ as one of her audition pieces to gain entrance to The Julliard School’s pre-college program.