Nashville Symphony audiences see musician Peter Otto playing the violin onstage at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. But it's what they can't see that earned him the title of concertmaster. Otto, a ...

The concertmaster position at the Boston Symphony Orchestra that has been vacant for five years has finally been filled. Nathan Cole begins his new job when the BSO's season at Tanglewood kicks off in ...

Former Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Odin Rathnam’s preliminary hearing on a battery of child sex abuse charges was postponed Monday after Rathnam asked for representation by the Dauphin ...

After two years, Southwest Florida Symphony has found its new concertmaster: Miami violinist Orin Laursen. Laursen, 30, replaces Reiko Niiya, who left the Fort Myers orchestra in October 2020 under ...

The choice of a first violinist is the most important appointment that any orchestra’s music director can make, for the position requires not only superb playing ability and broad musicianship, but ...

Plop violinist Angela Fuller in a photo shoot, and without prompting, the Houston Symphony concertmaster leans, twists, sits cross-legged and shoeless on a chair, and plays peekaboo with her 1725 ...

The role is part fiddler-in-chief, part virtuoso, part diplomat — and all-important to the life of an orchestra. They play the violin, sit right up front, and often shake the conductor’s hand. They ...

A Korean American violinist has been appointed as the concertmaster for the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra (Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg), an internationally renowned symphony ...

Houston Symphony associate concertmaster Eric Halen is part of the orchestra's nerve center, sitting elbow to elbow with concertmaster Frank Huang. When Huang takes time off, Halen slides into the ...

After 20 years as concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and after working with three different music directors, Herbert Greenberg is resigning at the end of the current season. “This was ...

Violinist Glenn Dicterow spent 34 years in New York City as the longest-serving concertmaster in the history of the New York Philharmonic. Now he’s back in Southern California, where he was born and ...