Thanks to our friends at Nonesuch Records, The Violin Channel is this week giving away 5 signed copies of VC Artist violinist Stefan Jackiw and

American composer Charles Ives was born on this day in 1874 – 150 years ago. A graduate of Yale University, where he studied composition with Horatio

On this day, American composer Charles Ives died in 1954 - aged 79. He is remembered as America's first composer of international renown – credited