New York? When Regina Carter’s pianist suggested the jazz musician play Paganini’s world-famous violin — so valuable that it’s kept under lock and key in Italy — she figured it would be a difficult ...

In 2015, a delegation of city leaders from Columbus, Ohio, went to Italy's Genoa, where they heard a performance of the famed Paganini violin. The contingent spent the next four years working to ...

The violin, dubbed "Il Cannone" (the cannon) because of its powerful sound, was Italian composer and violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini's favourite. The maestro from the Italian city of Genoa played it ...

Get to know Benjamin Legg, who finds his focus in a creative space for diverse artists. Learn about artist Benjamin Legg who finds his focus in a creative space for a diverse group of working artists ...

Paganini & Wieniawski Violin Concertos (Mark Kaplan, violin; London Symphony Orchestra; Mitch Miller, cond.; Arabesque). It isn`t often that one encounters 19th-Century virtuoso pieces played with as ...

The Moscow-based Violin Art Foundation bought the rare violin – the first from Paganini’s legendary collection to come up for auction – for 568,000 pounds ($1.01 million) on Tuesday, auctioneers ...

For Regina Carter, it was the chance of a lifetime. Carter, a classically trained jazz violinist, is one of the few people in the world who have been allowed to play a closely guarded violin ...

Excerpted from the magazine for Billboard.com. By Billboard Staff There is a good reason why Regina Carter is pictured inside her latest release holding a violin, flanked by two somber, uniformed ...

More than 200 years ago, Niccolo Paganini led the celebrity lifestyle of drinking, debts and dalliances. Today, long after the violinist and composer’s death, one of his violins enjoys its own ...

'Il Cannone' was Italian composer and violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini's favourite The world's most famous violin, "Il Cannone", made in 1743 and played by the great virtuoso Niccolo Paganini, being ...