Just how hard is it to make Mozart’s splendid music sound like, well, Mozart? “It’s always a challenge to bring forward, in the best way possible, the simple beauty of Mozart and make it work,” says ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer Ann Clyne (credit: Victoria Stevens), composer John Adams (credit: Christine Alicino). Mozart's Violin Concerto #5 is the type of piece you can stomp your feet along ...
Mozart never made it to America: getting seasick crossing the English Channel put an end to any of his seafaring fantasies. But America was frequently on Mozart's mind. In fact, his closest ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A scholar dared to complete violin sonata fragments left by the great composer. They’re featured on a new album. By Zachary Woolfe For a musician, ...
Classical violinists turned YouTubers Brett Yang and Eddy Chen (aka TwoSet Violin) collaborated with the virtual platform Moment House to broadcast a world tour virtually on December 28. Image: ...
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 ...
If you’re like me, conversations about the line between Classical and Romantic music can cause you to shudder at memories of cramming for music theory tests in middle school. Composers in Vienna in ...
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 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 ...
MUSKEGON, MI - The Frauenthal Center is preparing to welcome two Grammy-nominated artists, Kev Marcus and Wil Baptiste of Black Violin, for an entertaining night of classical sounds and modern hip-hop ...