Nina DiGregorio always wanted to play rock and roll — but doing that on the violin wasn’t much of an option when she was growing up in upstate New York, she said. Today, however, she’s known as the ...
Donning a black leather dress, bright blue fur coat and platform sneakers, Katarina Visnevska could pass for a weekend clubgoer at the Loop’s popular Roof on The Wit. But her presence demands ...
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: ...
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 ...
At just 10 years old, Brandon Hoff picked up a violin and fell in love. Just a few years later, Mark Wood — the inventor of the first solid-body electric violin and world-leading rock violinist — ...
It all started for me when I had a dream in 8th grade that I was on stage in front of thousands of people playing the violin. I acted upon that dream and began to play my ninth-grade year in high ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...