Blogs

We wanted to take a deep dive into why you might pay lots of money for what you might see as a curvy wooden box with strings. Well, it’s all about the wood, the maker, the craft, and *get ready to put on your French accent* the provenance.

Niccolò Paganini was called a sorcerer, charlatan, magician, wizard, Witch's Son, and the Devil's Violinist. But why? Join us as Shar Music® investigates four common myths about the virtuoso.

Halloween season is a wonderful time to pull together an appropriately spooky repertoire. Shar Music® has a few suggestions for you!

Violinist Samuel Vargas Teixeira leads a diverse career as a performer, educator, and entrepreneur. We interviewed Samuel to discuss his winding and intricate path to becoming a classical violinist, as well as the philanthropy he is involved in providing music to children all over the globe. 

Horror films, and by extension the orchestras and string instruments that help make them uniquely unsettling, are so culturally important to us that it makes sense we take a bit of time to think about how the score is actually composed.

Shar Music’s own Shruthi Kattumenu sat down for an in-person interview with Jerod to discuss his career, aspirations, and moments of pride he celebrates as a Native American musician and composer. 

Nataliia Koptienkova, director of The Suzuki School of Ukraine, was thinking of her students when the Russian invasion rocked the capital of Kyiv in February 2022. Read on to learn their story. 

Sixty-one years ago, four young men from Liverpool changed the course of history with their first single “Love Me Do,” released on October 5th, 1962. But the song doesn’t  often get the recognition it deserves. In this article, we’ll take you through the history of “Love Me Do,” and discuss how the Beatles stumbled their way to stardom.

Join Aaron Dworkin for his latest poem about the only universal language we can speak: the joy of music.