Any music act with a unique sound — such as Black Violin’s fusion of classical music and hip-hop — is bound to sound familiar from album to album. But violinist Kev Marcus has no problem seeing a ...

The cool breeze off the Potomac River convinced the crowds at this year’s D.C. Jazz Festival from June 9-18 to dance – even as the temperatures crossed 90 degrees – as soon as “Kev Marcus” Sylvester ...

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 ...

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 ...

With sparkly hula-hoops circling their waists, Brett Yang and Eddy Chen started their energetic rendition of the Bach Double Violin Concerto’s first movement. The piece is normally stoic and ...

Brendan Slocumb remembers that moment that classical music just clicked for him. BRENDAN SLOCUMB: The first piece of classical music that I heard was Mozart's "Symphony No. 40." (SOUNDBITE OF ...

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 ...

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 Joshua Bell was just three or four, he made a rudimentary instrument by stringing rubber bands over a dresser drawer. That’s something a lot of kids do for fun, but not all of them grow up to be ...

On the evening of Sept. 26, crowds of people gathered in Symphony Hall in anticipation of the sold-out Boston leg of the TwoSet Violin World Tour 2023/24. TwoSet Violin — a hilarious Australian comedy ...