One of the biggest fears of every violinist is to have a string broken, and the reasons are obvious: the sudden explosive sound, the risks of a fallen soundpost and consequent interruption of the ...

Taiwanese-Australian violinist Ray Chen gives us all a lesson in how to recover an unexpected instrument mishap without missing a beat. While performing Tchaikovsky’s majestic Violin Concerto with the ...

Ever wonder what happens when an orchestral guest artist has an instrument malfunction? Those things do happen, you know. The most common glitch is for a string to break mid-performance. What’s the ...

What do you do when you’re performing a stirring violin solo before a concert crowd, and a string on your instrument suddenly breaks? That’s what happened with violinist Ray Chen, performing Thursday ...