The members of Black Violin want to change perceptions about who can play what kind of music. Wil Baptiste on viola and Kev Marcus on violin met as high school orchestra nerds. Today they play ...
In an interview with Q’s Tom Power, Bell also talks about his early life as a child prodigy and how he fell in love with the ...
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 ...
When you think of classical music, chances are you don’t often think of an underlying hip-hop beat. That's where two musicians, Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus come in. The pair has been blending hip-hop ...
Wynton Marsalis' rare musical versatility has long been a beacon in the worlds of jazz and classical music. Now the Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer brings those ...
Two Black violinists continue to take the world by storm with their fusion of classical music and hip hop performed as the duo Black Violin. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shared a profile of Kev ...
TwoSet Violin, a classical comedy violin duo that gained popularity through their viral YouTube videos, performed for and answered questions from a packed audience in Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona ...
TwoSet perform in London in a sell-out, one night only concert Brett Yang and Eddy Chen met at after-school maths tutoring when they were growing up in Australia - now they are selling out ...
Kevin Sylvester wasn’t thrilled when his mom made him join the orchestra in elementary school. "My whole life I thought it was like ballerina music," he explained. "Classical music didn’t relate to me ...
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 ...