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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chris Thile – mandolin virtuoso, composer and vocalist – transcends the borders of conventionally defined musical genres.Equally at home with progressive bluegrass, classical, rock, and jazz, Thile ...

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 ...