Dr. Ajit Abeysekera has been dreaming of establishing an orchestra made up entirely of wind instruments for nearly 20 years. Now, thanks to the sponsorship of the Dr. Earle de Fonseka Trust and the ...

Trumpet players create about 2,500 aerosol particles per liter of air that flows through their instrument. HERBERT NEUBAUER/AFP via Getty Images To stop microbe-carrying droplets from spreading in an ...

Orchestral ensembles have faced many challenges when starting to perform again during the COVID pandemic, and contamination is a chief concern: specifically, whether wind instruments are vectors of ...

Those playing trumpets and oboes are more likely to spread airborne diseases, while the risk in playing a bass clarinet, involved in a recent Covid-19 infection that resulted in the quarantine of more ...

The third concert of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra's (SCO) Virtuoso Series of chamber concerts was devoted to the plangent sounds of Chinese wind instruments, focusing on the dizi, sheng and suona.

Trombones replacing cellos, contrabassoons and everything in between — the University of Connecticut’s Symphonic Wind Ensemble transformed a series of songs initially written for different instruments ...

Springfield Symphony Orchestra is dancing into 2022 with numerous rhythms from far-flung places and different ways of listening. Dvorak’s Serenade for Wind Instruments will be the main event. This ...

The Colombo Wind Orchestra’s second concert for the year - ‘Movie Extravaganza’ will be on Saturday, September 7 at 7 p.m. at the Bishop’s College Auditorium. Conducted by Maestro Keiko Kobayashi, the ...

Wind instruments have often been unjustly labelled as the less glamorous members of the orchestral family, due to the tendency of the instrument to restrict the performer's movements. Unable to sway ...

Stravinsky’s diverse output for piano is headed here by the sophisticated Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments and the gritty Movements for Piano and Orchestra. Bavouzet is sprightly and ...