About four months ago now, I got it into my head that I wanted to learn to play the violin. I’d fallen in love with a Brahms waltz and thought one day I’d like to play a duet with my kid.

Tiana Ekpanyaskun playing her adapted violin. But 18 months after her stroke, Tiana was accepted into Melbourne Youth Orchestra’s mainstream ensemble program thanks to her tenacity and an ...

Part of that education involves the violin. "All of our students learn how to play violin, K thru 5th grade," said music teacher, Maddison Erskine. It's more than just learning to play.

I would go around the house with sticks and pretend I was playing violin.” Sam played by ear, following the Suzuki method. Every contest he entered as a child, he won.

Anantawan instead set his heart on the violin — typically, no more a one-handed instrument than the recorder would be. And ...