After months of teaching on Zoom, MetroWest music schools are sounding a tentative but hopeful note as they return to in-person lessons, but virtual sessions will remain an option. “It’s definitely ...

For voice teachers like Erin Matthews, seeing and hearing her students isn’t only nice — it’s a professional necessity. But in the space of a few days, Matthews and her colleagues have dealt not only ...

As students across the world have had to adjust to taking lessons online, Ed Sheeran chose to offer an elementary class some much-needed motivation. The singer surprised a Zoom music class at a South ...

Every musician faces the same situation. That includes people like Barry Stephenson, the young and acclaimed but still struggling jazz bass player who’s presently outlining the conundrum for me. It ...

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — On March 12, Thomas Kikta, chair of contemporary music media and jazz at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, got word that his campus was shutting down due to Covid-19.