Vera Lytovchenko has become an internet icon of resilience as images of the accomplished violinist playing in a basement bomb shelter in the besieged Ukrainian city of Kharkiv have inspired an international audience via social media.

By Paolo Santalucia, Associated Press

Gaelynn Lea is transforming our cultural understanding of who can be a musician. A congenital disability called osteogenesis imperfecta caused her bones to break more than 40 times while she was in the womb. But the violinist is known for…

By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport

Vijay Gupta is a Juilliard-trained violinist who's been using music as a way to connect with L.A.’s homeless and incarcerated and promote healing. A movement that began with one Skid Row occupant has now evolved into a group of 80…

By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport

Hilary Hahn and Jennifer Higdon shared a love of 20th century music when Higdon was Hahn's professor at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Fifteen years later, this student-teacher relationship has transformed into a partnership at the top of…