Describing it as 'music's secret fire', Tom Service explores the world of the viola. Speaking to Lawrence Power, one of the world's great viola players, who has commissioned numerous works for his ...

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 ...

Melody McKiver didn't grow up dreaming of the day they would become a solo electronic violist. Possibly nobody ever has before. Maybe every electro-violist's career is a kind of happy accident.