A golf game between middle school music teachers may have determined the existence of one of the most innovative musical duos performing today. Wil Baptiste and Kevin Sylvester are the ...

Students in the Homer OPUS program perform at the Alaska Superintendents Association conference at Lands End Resort on September 30, 2022. (Hope McKenney/KUCB) Three dozen kindergarteners and first ...

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 ...

Students in the new DeLUXE K!DS violin program perform on Dec. 1. Every weekday afternoon, the hallways of Houston ISD's Bruce Elementary fill with the sounds of children excited to get out of school.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – They may be putting on a show, but they’re not putting on an act. Of course, Black Violin strives to entertain. That’s why they’re coming to Playhouse Square on Thursdays. They just ...

Randall Goosby and his siblings were “encouraged” by their mother to study an instrument as a child but they were given a choice about which one they would choose. When he was 6, Goosby tried piano ...

A 300-year-old violin, reputed to have been played on the Oscar-winning “Wizard of Oz” score, will go on the auction block next month and could fetch as much as $20 million. The rare Stradivarius ...

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 ...

The city is about to see an influx of the world's best young classical violinists — 40 of them, to be exact. They'll perform stunningly difficult repertoire for the 11th Quadrennial International ...

Aug. 2, 2022 Updated Tue., Aug. 2, 2022 at 12:53 p.m. Tomoko Kurita in Hiroshima, Japan, on July 31, 2022, playing a violin that survived the atomic bombing of the city. (Japan News-Yomiuri/Japan News ...

After a monthlong disappearance, police have returned a stolen violin made in 1760 to a South Loop family of musicians whose home was burglarized and robbed of the 262-year-old violin, as well as two ...