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
