The viola is the middle voice of the string family. It is slightly larger than a violin and has a lower and deeper sound than a violin. Since the 18th century it has been the middle or alto voice of ...

The viola is in nature an undersized pansy. In art it is an oversized violin with a tubby, whiskey-contralto voice. Except for low-moaning the inner voices of symphonies and string quartets, it is not ...

On Garth Knox's new album, Saltarello, the adventurous violist creates surprising musical juxtapositions. Garth Knox was born to play the viola. As a youngster, he already had two sisters who played ...

"People sometimes think playing the viola is boring," muses Teng Li, the newly appointed principal violist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. "Traditionally, the viola has been considered a 'filler' ...

As associate principal violist with the Phoenix Symphony, Mesa’s Chiara Kingsley Dieguez gets to do what she loves for a living, as so many of us only wish we could. Her full-time job is playing the ...

In May, Roberto Díaz performed at the US Library of Congress using a rare viola made by Antonio Stradivari in 1690. Called the Tuscan-Medici viola, it is now valued at $30 million, possibly the ...