Serious Business

Musical comedy duo TwoSet Violin reveal why they don’t play with an orchestra, and how they embrace imperfection and make classical music fun for everyone

By Zabrina Lo

TwoSet Violin want to upend classical music’s “boring”, “serious” reputation, and they’re doing so one YouTube view at a time. The musical comedy duo, made up of classically trained violinists Brett Yang and Eddy Chen, have been delivering hilarious videos of musical covers and trivia since January 2014; so far, their clips have accumulated 1.53 billion views. They even get some of the world’s top performers to let down their hair when they appear as guests: three-time Grammy-winning American violinist Hilary Hahn played a Mozart concerto while spinning a hula hoop around her waist in 2018; in 2022, Taiwanese Australian star Ray Chen agreed to post a photo of himself wearing cat ears if he lost a musical challenge. This year, the duo are touring Asia, with stops in Hong…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2024

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