Yakima-based violinist Kimberlee Dray started studying violin as a child in a farming community in Idaho. She felt a passion for music and showed promise, but decided to put aside her studies when she ...

This post initially appeared on the Curriculum Matters blog. Studying music seems to have helped accelerate the cognitive development, and particularly the auditory- and speech and language-processing ...

The last two weeks of the semester are some of the busiest times for a college student with ever-looming finals, projects and for some, performances. For those performing in ASU’s Doctoral Recital ...

Music can motivate you, improve your mood, and help you relax. It can even help you focus so you can study or work. But different types of music can have different effects. Many people find music ...

Oscar Soler, Concertmaster – The Robert and Nancy Follett ChairOscar Soler has earned a Master of Music degree in violin performance and Suzuki pedagogy at the Cleveland Institute of Music in May 2009 ...

In a study called 'the largest investigation of the association between playing a musical instrument and brain development,' a child psychiatry team has found that musical training might also help ...

Behavior, particularly psychologist Edward Thorndike's law of effect, is the foundational principle behind the evolution of the violin and other handmade inventions, say authors in a new article.