Mandolinist Chris Thile performs in the West Coast premiere of his "Attention!" with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Teddy Abrams at the Hollywood Bowl Thursday night (Genaro Molina/Los ...

UCSB Arts & Lectures will present mandolin virtuoso, composer and vocalist Chris Thile, returning with a program of his arrangements of Bach sonatas and partitas, as well as his own compositions, at 7 ...

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Grammy-winning musician Chris Thile, 36, is probably best known these days as the dry-witted guy who took over as host for Garrison Keillor on the popular, long-running radio show “A Prairie Home ...

It may not take a certified genius and mandolin master to make a heady concept album billed as “a meditation on committed relationships in the present day, particularly in light of the current ...

The baroque composer J.S. Bach never wrote for the mandolin. But Chris Thile has found a way around that. Along with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and bassist Edgar Meyer, Thile arranged a number of compositions ...

Like a breath of fresh air, mandolin virtuoso, composer and vocalist Chris Thile blew into the Vilar Performing Arts Center at Beaver Creek on March 21 and 22 on the tail of the vernal equinox, and ...

Footpaths and a man-made stream bisect Anderson Park, an open grassy area in the middle of the Aspen Ideas Festival campus. An 800-pole bamboo sculpture was under construction nearby where Nickel ...

Chris Thile of Nickel Creek performs onstage for the 22nd Annual Americana Honors & Awards at Ryman Auditorium on September 20, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. Chris Thile says he fell in love with ...

CEDAR FALLS --- Chris Thile, mandolin virtuoso and frontman for Punch Brothers, likes to feel a little resistance in his music. "I don't want music to cuddle me and tell me I'm a good person. I like ...

When it comes to provocatively suggestive titles, composers’ intentions are seldom as successfully realized as with, say, Scriabin’s “Poem of Ecstasy” or P.D.Q. Bach’s affectionate Philip Glass parody ...