Today, Thile is stretching the limits of his instrument yet again — this time taking on Johann Sebastian Bach. He's just released an album of solo mandolin performances called Sonatas and Partitas, ...

Footpaths and a man-made stream bisect Anderson Park, an open grassy area in the middle of the Aspen Ideas Festival campus. An 800-pole bamboo sculpture was under construction nearby where Nickel ...

The virtuoso mandolin player now finds himself balancing a busy recording-and-touring career with his new role with the popular public radio show. The baroque composer J.S. Bach never wrote for the ...

Footpaths and a man-made stream bisect Anderson Park, an open grassy area in the middle of the Aspen Ideas Festival campus. An 800-pole bamboo sculpture was under construction nearby where Nickel ...

Johann Sebastian Bach has been dead for 263 years, but musicians are still working on his music. Look at the Billboard classical music chart. Four albums devoted to Bach’s music are in that list’s top ...

Acclaimed Grammy Award-winning mandolinist, singer, songwriter, composer, and MacArthur Fellow recipient of the prestigious ...

If you blinked at the wrong time, it was easy to miss the fact that Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau had played together at all. For two such restless collaborators, each occasional encounter was one more ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Thile, a Grammy Award winner and MacArthur Fellow, is known for his work with ...

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Watch the mandolinist play solo and in collaboration with violinist Sofia Hashemi-Asasi and students from the Aspen Music school. Footpaths and a man-made stream bisect Anderson Park, an open grassy ...