Brett Yang and Eddy Chen said when they started out, everyone was skeptical they could pull off live concerts blending comedy ...

Works by Philip Glass and Bohuslav Martinu, as well as performances by Daniil Trifonov and Jonas Kaufmann, are among the ...

Black Violin is the modern incarnation of that simple, but constant, drive to perform. “It’s hard to come from humble beginnings, so when they offer to pay, you to come,” says violinist Kev Murphy. “I ...

Helping Bennett and Nickson bring contemporary classical music to Sarasota are key collaborators such as percussionist Mike ...

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 ...

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 ...

What do you get when classical music meets hip-hop, plus a little R&B, funk and rock? The answer is Black Violin, playing at the Charleston Gaillard Center at 7 p.m. March 8. They'll be joined on ...

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 ...

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 ...

As New Yorkers retreated to their homes to stop the spread of COVID-19 in March 2020, Clemency Burton-Hill, then 38, was waking up from a 17-day coma. The creative director of New York Public Radio’s ...

I pretended to be a classical violinist but surprised strangers with Led Zeppelin, Queen, Fall Out Boys, Guns 'n Roses, and ...