Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The mandolin has been around for four-plus centuries now, but the instrument never fully captured the imagination of the classical set. Over the years, ...

Avi Avital plays the mandolin sitting center stage in a hard-back chair. He curls into himself, his face turned downward, and nestles the small stringed instrument on his lap. His intense ...

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It will be 30 years this summer since Paul Simon released his “Graceland” album, on which the pop and folk of America and Africa were blended into an imaginative hybrid. At the time, it seemed like a ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Grammy-nominated Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital teams up with the string ...

At the last concert of the Hollywood Bowl classical season Thursday night, two fellows made their Los Angeles Philharmonic debuts. Neither is a garden-variety classical musician. Front and center was ...

"I didn't look for the mandolin: it found me." By chance, as a child, Avi Avital discovered a passion for this modest stringed instrument, traditionally associated with popular music and amateur ...

Other than bluegrass virtuosos like Ricky Skaggs, players of the mandolin don't often get taken very seriously. But a young Israeli musician named Avi Avital is trying to change that. He's not a ...

Much as Andres Segovia brought the classical guitar into the concert hall, the Israeli virtuoso Avi Avital is doing the same with the mandolin. On Thursday, Avital makes his Los Angeles Philharmonic ...

Avi Avital is one of the world's leading classical mandolinists, gracing concert halls from Tel Aviv to Munich to New York. But the young Israeli says he discovered the mandolin only by coincidence.

Even if you are a hardcore classical music junkie, you've probably never been to a solo mandolin recital. Let's face it, mandolins are the black sheep of musical instruments, either confined to ...

Avital has the long, slender fingers of a concert pianist. Yet instead of stretching chords out wide on a Steinway, he squeezes those lengthy... Avi Avital: Tiny Desk Concert Other than bluegrass ...