Dr. Ajit Abeysekera has been dreaming of establishing an orchestra made up entirely of wind instruments for nearly 20 years. Now, thanks to the sponsorship of the Dr. Earle de Fonseka Trust and the ...

Those playing trumpets and oboes are more likely to spread airborne diseases, while the risk in playing a bass clarinet, involved in a recent Covid-19 infection that resulted in the quarantine of more ...

Orchestral ensembles have faced many challenges when starting to perform again during the COVID pandemic, and contamination is a chief concern: specifically, whether wind instruments are vectors of ...

Trumpet players create about 2,500 aerosol particles per liter of air that flows through their instrument. HERBERT NEUBAUER/AFP via Getty Images To stop microbe-carrying droplets from spreading in an ...

The third concert of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra's (SCO) Virtuoso Series of chamber concerts was devoted to the plangent sounds of Chinese wind instruments, focusing on the dizi, sheng and suona.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many live musical events and festivals were postponed and even canceled to protect musicians and audience members. When they started performing again, many groups ...

The Colombo Wind Orchestra’s second concert for the year - ‘Movie Extravaganza’ will be on Saturday, September 7 at 7 p.m. at the Bishop’s College Auditorium. Conducted by Maestro Keiko Kobayashi, the ...

Surprising new research reveals brass and woodwind players are at greater risk of developing a respiratory illness, because of bacteria build-up within their instruments. The increased risk, according ...