In the sprawling landscape of contemporary music, where genre boundaries increasingly blur into irrelevance, Black Violin emerges as something genuinely exceptional—a classical-meets-hip-hop ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Feb. 18, 2021. Find that audio here. When violinist Kev Marcus and violist Wil B met on the first day of their high school orchestra class, they decided ...

Wilner Baptiste grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., but he spent his teenage years in two different worlds. After practicing viola in music classes, "I'd put my headphones on and listen to whatever ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. TwoSet Violin, classical music’s favorite viral duo, takes the stage with the New ...

It's not as though Brett Yang and Eddy Chen planned to turn their act, TwoSet Violin, into a global disruptor of classical music. They barely had a plan at all. But when they threw in their coveted ...

Imagine a strong hip-hop beat overlapping a rich, classical melody and transforming into a gritty, classical ensemble. That is the essence of the classical duo Black Violin. Black Violin, a duo ...

Kevin Marcus and Wil Baptiste of Black Violin want to shatter classical music stereotypes. “We play violins but we don’t look like violinists and we always just try to lean into that. The reason we’ve ...

Paloma So received a full scholarship from the New England Conservatory, not Harvard University. In 2014, violinist Paloma So made her debut with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, performing as ...

SINGAPORE – Singaporean violinist Chloe Chua’s new album Butterfly Lovers & Paganini has nabbed the No. 4 spot on the United Kingdom’s classical music chart. The 17-year-old classical music prodigy’s ...