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 ...

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 ...

In an interview with Q’s Tom Power, Bell also talks about his early life as a child prodigy and how he fell in love with the violin.

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 ...

Brothers Tourie and Damien Escobar were just young boys when they began earning money by playing the violin on New York's subways. While attending Julliard School of Music, they started incorporating ...

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 ...

A holiday album that cuts through seasonal glut, a late collaboration by Jim McNeely and Helmut Lachenmann’s string quartets ...

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 ...

Armenian virtuoso Haik Kazazyan has been crowned winner of the inaugural Classic Violin Olympus in Dubai. Kazazyan triumphed after a gruelling six rounds at Dubai’s Jumeirah Zabeel Saray, scooping ...