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 ...

Black Violin excels in combining classical music and hip-hop, two genres that at first glance do not seem at all compatible. The group, consisting of Kev Marcus on the violin and Wil B, aka Wil ...

Music producer Jlin collaborated with violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain and tapper Leonardo Sandoval — mesmerizing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The unique style of Black Violin’s music is created from a mix of hip hop and classical music described as “classical boom.” Some artists may say their influences are Mozart and Bach, but Kevin ...

Black Violin’s Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus know they’re unexpected. Black Violin, Wil Baptiste (left) and Kev Marcus “We’re two black guys playing violin,” says Baptiste. “If you saw me right now ...

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 talented with an iPhone as he is with a 300-year-old Stradivarius, Brisbane-raised Ray Chen is redefining classical music for his 1 million Instagram followers.

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 ...

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 ...

Kevin Sylvester never gets tired of the reaction. When he and music partner Wilner Baptiste — who go by the stage names of Kev Marcus and Wil B — play a mixture of classical and hip-hop as the duo ...