This unique concert brings together internationally-renowned folk musicians for a night of Russian, East European, and Gypsy music on traditional instruments, including the balalaika, domra, bayan, ...

Zhao Cong, vice-president and the principal pipa player of China National Traditional Orchestra, spent months arranging the Chinese musical piece Full Bloom into a duet for the pipa and the Russian ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Background on elements of traditional Russian music, with a focus on the balalaika and accordion. Students perform their own adaptations of ...

Mia Bulgarin Gay sounds a bit stunned when she says the number out loud: 35. Thirty-five years since she led the charge to turn what started out as an outlet for Russian nationals to play the music ...

Introduction: Nine musical performances will be held at the concert featuring musical instruments including the darbuka (a traditional hourglass-shaped Arabian drum instrument), balalaika (a ...

This Sunday, Nov. 22 the Washington Balalaika Society (WBS) will be performing their fall concert Musical Treasures. Musical Treasures will feature Russian Soprano Olga Orlovskaya as soloist and ...

The San Francisco Balalaika Ensemble performs Russian, Ukrainian, Russian Roma (Gypsy) and Crimean Tatar music in a traditional folk instrument orchestra of balalaikas, domras, bayan (Russian button ...

Russian-born, Washington, D.C.-based domra player Peter Omelchenko learned everything there was to learn about traditional Russian folk music while studying in his native Moscow. He brings that wealth ...

The third and last of St. Luke’s Presbyterian Church’s free Garden Concerts in 2013 will featured the Firebird Balalaika Quartet on Sunday, Aug. 25. Founded in 1995, the quartet has built a reputation ...

Members of the Kalinka Balalaika Orchestra recently starred in Ewan McGregor's A Gentleman in Moscow television series Britain's only balalaika orchestra is struggling for members partly because of ...