There is only one Russian Guitar Festival in the world — right here in Iowa City. This weekend, the Iowa City and Cedar Rapids area will welcome international artists to perform and teach about this ...

When Oleg Timofeyev first came to America 23 years ago, he was the third Russian native to choose Iowa City as his home. Now, almost a quarter of a decade later, he will bring the seventh Russian ...

Oleg Timofeyev heard classical music practically from the day he was born in Moscow in 1963. His mother studied cello at a conservatory and his grandmother was a concert pianist. His parents, however, ...

Instruments don't die the same way breathing things do. Brass can can tarnish, strings can fray, but if a musical instrument isn't played, it can be forgotten by a culture; more museum piece than ...