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José Bowen, Dean of the Meadows School at SMU, has taught at Stanford and Georgetown, written over 100 scholarly articles, edited the Cambridge Compan

Uzman takes us into another world with his ability to glide around on the guitar. Born in Pakistan, Usman is an artist, a performing musician, a compo

This group represents The Fine Arts Center of Greenville County in South Carlina, USA. It is a magnet high school for the arts, drawing students from

Acclaimed as America’s premier postclassical string quartet, ETHEL invigorates contemporary concert music with refreshing exuberance, fierce int

Bruce Huebner’s shakuhachi sound is unbounded by musical convention, flowing from freeform to jazz to Japanese traditional music to Celtic to Western

Ana Vidović is one of the youngest virtuoso guitarists in the world. Ana started playing guitar at the age of 5, and by 7 had given her first public p

Ajay Kapur is the Director of the Music Technology program (MTIID) at the California Institute of the Arts, as well as the Associate Dean for Research

A member of the celebrated string trio Orchestrio Zurich—also known as “the smallest orchestra in the world”—Noriko Kawamura started playing violin at

Next-generation Japanese didgeridoo performer SMILY first heard the otherworldly tones of the quintessential Australian wind instrument while studying

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/from-aaliya… Jonathan Mannion once convinced rapper DMX to climb into a pool of blood — all in

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Daniel performs a Telemann Fantasia for Solo violin, which i

Formed by a group of five in 2005, HANDSIGN are known for their buoyant performances that blend dance, song and original sign language. Here in Japan

Master percussionist Winchester Nii Tete hails from the honorable Addy-Amo-Boye clans of drummers in Ghana. His finely textured repertoire echoes exub

Watch award-winning music producer and sound designer Drasko wow the audience at TEDxToronto 2011.

Kenji Williams is an award-winning filmmaker, music producer, theatrical show director, and classically trained violinist who fuses music, visual arts

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