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On 11 December 2020, they announced a temporary hiatus from YouTube due to health reasons on Yang's side.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thestrad.com/news/brett-yang-of-twoset-violin-to-take-a-break/11577.article |title=Brett Yang of TwoSet Violin to take a break |website=[[The Strad]] |publisher=[[Newsquest Specialist Media]] |date=16 December 2020 |access-date=16 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.violinist.com/blog/laurie/202012/28575/ |title=TwoSet Violin Takes a Break for Health Reasons |last=Niles |first=Laurie |date=16 December 2020 |website=Violinist.com |access-date=23 December 2020}}</ref> They announced a slow return to making videos on 14 January 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=We're Bach |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEsYlujLXJA&t=339s&ab_channel=TwoSetViolin |website=YouTube |publisher=TwoSetViolin |access-date=16 January 2021}}</ref>
On 11 December 2020, they announced a temporary hiatus from YouTube due to health reasons on Yang's side.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thestrad.com/news/brett-yang-of-twoset-violin-to-take-a-break/11577.article |title=Brett Yang of TwoSet Violin to take a break |website=[[The Strad]] |publisher=[[Newsquest Specialist Media]] |date=16 December 2020 |access-date=16 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.violinist.com/blog/laurie/202012/28575/ |title=TwoSet Violin Takes a Break for Health Reasons |last=Niles |first=Laurie |date=16 December 2020 |website=Violinist.com |access-date=23 December 2020}}</ref> They announced a slow return to making videos on 14 January 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=We're Bach |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEsYlujLXJA&t=339s&ab_channel=TwoSetViolin |website=YouTube |publisher=TwoSetViolin |access-date=16 January 2021}}</ref>

Shortly after on 24 January 2021 they announced when Eddy's Sibelius Violin Concerto would be live celebrating surpassing 3 million subscribers on Youtube.


==Tours==
==Tours==

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TwoSet Violin
TwoSet Violin (Brett Yang playing the violin while hula hooping, accompanied by Eddy Chen on the piano), Merkin Concert Hall, New York City on 31 October 2018.
Personal information
BornBrett Yang
(1992-03-03) 3 March 1992 (age 32)[1]
Eddy Chen
March 1993 (age 31)[2]
OriginBrisbane, Australia
Occupations
  • Musician
  • YouTuber
Websitewww.twosetviolin.com
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2013–present
Genres
  • Comedy
  • music
Subscribers3.03 million[3]
Total views747 million[3]
100,000 subscribers2018
1,000,000 subscribers2019
Last updated: 15 January 2021

TwoSet Violin is an Australian comedy duo consisting of violinists Brett Yang and Eddy Chen. The pair are best known for their musical comedy on their YouTube channel, which has reached over 3.03 million subscribers and 747 million views as of 20 January 2021.

History

Brett Yang and Eddy Chen first met each other in mathematics tutoring when Yang was 14 and Chen 13.[4][5] They became acquainted as the youngest members of a youth orchestra and later as students at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.[6] In 2012, Yang debuted at Queensland Conservatorium performing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. He has worked with various other Australian orchestras, including a performance at the 2014 G20 Brisbane summit, where he met several world leaders, including United States President Barack Obama.[7][8] Chen was a finalist for the National Young Virtuoso Award in Queensland in 2014 and had played with the Queensland and Melbourne symphonies.[9]

In 2013, the duo started posting covers of pop music played on the violin on their YouTube channel.[6] In an interview with CutCommon, Yang said they saw violin virtuosos who had millions of views on YouTube playing covers and attempted to do the same to minimal reaction.[9] They then discovered violinist Ray Chen made comedic videos and shifted their content in a similar direction. They focused their videos on their lives in the conservatory culture, as classical musicians and as students, which led to a dramatic increase in viewership.[6][9][10] At the end of 2016, Yang and Chen renounced their places in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Queensland Symphony Orchestra respectively to begin performing live concerts of their own.[8]

In 2018, their YouTube channel received the Silver Play Button for surpassing 100,000 subscribers; in 2019, they received the Gold Play Button for surpassing 1 million subscribers.[11] Classic FM's Kyle Macdonald listed TwoSet Violin as one of the "10 ways the 2010s changed classical music forever".[12] On 22 January 2020, it was announced that TwoSet Violin would be attending the Menuhin Competition held at Richmond, Virginia as roving reporters.[13][14] However, it was postponed to May 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.[15] On 8 February 2020, TwoSet Violin live streamed their performance of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto to celebrate achieving 2 million subscribers. Yang played the solo part while Chen performed an original arrangement of the orchestral component for solo violin.[16]

On 11 December 2020, they announced a temporary hiatus from YouTube due to health reasons on Yang's side.[17][18] They announced a slow return to making videos on 14 January 2021.[19]

Shortly after on 24 January 2021 they announced when Eddy's Sibelius Violin Concerto would be live celebrating surpassing 3 million subscribers on Youtube.

Tours

TwoSet announced their first live performance Brisbane, Australia on 8 September 2016 via YouTube.[20] The act featured violin performance more in the format of a comedy act than a traditional concert.[6]

With KickStarter as their fundraising method along with street performance in Sydney, they raised enough money to go on a worldwide tour in 2017 to 11 cities in 10 countries,[6][21][22] in Asia and Europe[23] including Taipei, Helsinki, and Frankfurt.[24][25][26] In 2018, they performed in several places in the United States including New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.[27][28][23]

In October 2019, TwoSet announced another world tour where they planned to visit multiple locations in Oceania, Europe, Asia and North America.[29] However, the tour was postponed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and new dates have not been announced as of December 2020.[30]

Videos, gimmicks and themes

In 2017, TwoSet Violin made a comedic reference to Ling Ling, a fictional violinist who "practices 40 hours a day". In an interview with Yle Uutiset, they described Ling Ling as the final boss of a video game: the Chuck Norris of violinists. Chen said they improvised the character from their comedy sketch video concerning a teenage violin student's tiger mom comparing the student to her friend's child.[31][32] In 2018, they released a series of videos called the Ling Ling Workout. In these challenges, the duo draws a classical piece (or contemporary music) and a handicap such as playing with double speed, scordatura, playing while dancing or hula hooping, with hand positions reversed, or while upside down. Prominent violinists such as Ray Chen, Ziyu He, and Hilary Hahn have also attempted the challenge on their channel.[33][32][34][35][36]

In July 2018, they released a series of videos in which they performed classical music using rubber chickens.[37][38][39] In August 2018, they released a video series called "1% Violin Skills, 99% Editing Skills" in which Yang attempts to play a difficult piece, and Chen asks him to play a chromatic scale. Chen then uses video editing to piece together the notes as originally composed.[40] Other gimmicks include violin charades,[35] playing other instruments,[41] and viola jokes.[42] Another popular video series consists of reviews of film and TV show scenes that feature violin playing, in which Yang and Chen critique egregiously fake performances.[43][44] On April Fools' Day 2019, they claimed they discovered a new Double Violin Concerto by J.S. Bach.[45]

On 14 September 2018, TwoSet Violin uploaded a reaction video to a BBC News story titled "Fastest Violinist in the World", in which they challenged violinist Ben Lee's Guinness World Record claim of playing "Flight of the Bumblebee" for what they perceived to be significant inaccuracy. They satirically timed themselves purposefully playing random fast notes before declaring they had broken the world record.[46] In April 2019, the duo similarly called out Vov Dylan, who was awarded the title of World's Fastest Violinist by the Australian Book Of Records,[47] concluding that Dylan's performance of "Bumblebee" was worse than Lee's.[48]

References

  1. ^ Channel, The Violin (3 March 2019). "Today is TwoSet Violinist Brett Yang's 27th Birthday! [ON-THIS-DAY]". The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  2. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0z4GBCQed4
  3. ^ a b "About TwoSetViolin". YouTube.
  4. ^ TwoSet Violin. TwoSet Brett & Eddy talk about things they don't usually talk about... Retrieved 21 December 2018 – via YouTube.
  5. ^ TwoSet Violin (23 September 2018). "Australisches Duo TwoSet Violin im Interview". Concerti.de (Interview) (in German). Interviewed by Elisa Reznicek.
  6. ^ a b c d e Ball, Meghna (13 April 2017). "Brisbane YouTubers Twoset Violin and their global quest to preserve classical music". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  7. ^ "Playing Violin for Barack Obama". YouTube. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  8. ^ a b "About – Meet Brett and Eddy". TwoSet Violin official website. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  9. ^ a b c Wood, Eleanor (23 November 2016). "TwoSet Violin: The Brisbane music graduates breaking the internet". CutCommon. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  10. ^ Sergi, Justin (12 October 2016). "Twoset Violin Offer A Guide to Understanding Conservatory Friends". WQXR. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  11. ^ References announcing their play buttons from YouTube:
  12. ^ MacDonald, Kyle (29 December 2019). "10 ways the 2010s changed classical music forever". Classic FM.
  13. ^ "Menuhin Competition Richmond 2020 Announces Competitors: 44 Violinists Selected from Record- High Applicant Pool; TwoSet Violin, YouTube Superstars and Classical-Music Comedy Duo, Attend Competition as Roving Reporters" (PDF). Richmond Symphony Orchestra (Press release). 22 January 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  14. ^ "Candidates Announced for 2020 Menuhin International Violin Competition". The Violin Channel. 22 January 2020.
  15. ^ "Menuhin Competition Richmond 2020". Menuhin Competition.
  16. ^ TwoSet Violin (8 February 2020). Tchaikovsky 2 Mil Drop. Retrieved 22 September 2020 – via YouTube.
  17. ^ "Brett Yang of TwoSet Violin to take a break". The Strad. Newsquest Specialist Media. 16 December 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  18. ^ Niles, Laurie (16 December 2020). "TwoSet Violin Takes a Break for Health Reasons". Violinist.com. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
  19. ^ "We're Bach". YouTube. TwoSetViolin. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  20. ^ TwoSet Violin (8 September 2016). Thank You – via YouTube.
  21. ^ "TwoSet Violin are launching a crowdfunded world tour". Classic FM (UK). 25 March 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  22. ^ Rochester, Marc (9 October 2017). "Classical music meets comedy". The Straits Times. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  23. ^ a b "TwoSet Violin World Tour Los Angeles". Colburn School. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  24. ^ Vanasse, Jacqueline (13 November 2017). "TwoSet Violin – Hilarious with a Cause". Violinist.com. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  25. ^ "TwoSet Violin World Tour". Helsinki Music Centre. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  26. ^ "TwoSet Violin World Tour Frankfurt - 14 October 2018". Evensi. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  27. ^ "TwoSet Violin World Tour – Wednesday,October 31 2018, 7 pm". Kaufman Music Center. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  28. ^ TwoSet Violin [@twosetviolin] (26 September 2018). "So San Francisco sold out in one hour..." (Tweet). Retrieved 18 October 2018 – via Twitter.
  29. ^ TwoSet Violin [@TwoSetViolin] (7 October 2019). "We've just released our world tour lineup! Visit http://twosetviolin.com/worldtour to see if we're coming to your city! Where else should we go? 👀" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  30. ^ "TwoSet Violin — World Tour". TwoSet Violin.
  31. ^ Matilla, Mattias (11 October 2018). "Tämän kaksikon sketsejä on katsottu somessa jo satoja miljoonia kertoja – meemien ja klassisen musiikin yhdistelmä osoittautui hittireseptiksi" [This duo's sketches have been watched hundreds of millions of times in Finland - the combination of memes and classical music turned out to be a hit recipe]. Yle Uutiset (in Finnish). Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  32. ^ a b Kim, Alina. "TwoSet Violin Perfects Their Practice". Chicago Maroon. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  33. ^ Betts, Richard (28 May 2019). "Social media adds new strings to musicians' bows". The New Zealand Herald.
  34. ^ Hilary Hahn Ling Ling Workouts:
  35. ^ a b Johari, Aarefa (1 January 2019). "New Year smiles: Want to play like a world-class musician without actually being one? Watch this". Scroll.in.
  36. ^ Parker, Liz (24 October 2018). "Niccolò Paganini, perhaps violin's first rock star, was born on October 27". The New Classical FM. Canada: Zoomer Media.
  37. ^ Alton, Jenna (16 August 2018). "The Clean Cut: Classical musician creates impressive version of Pachelbel's Canon using rubber chickens". Deseret News. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  38. ^ Sweeney, Chris (1 August 2018). "Wacky World of Rubber: Making music with rubber chickens". Rubber & Plastics News. Crain Communications. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  39. ^ Santiago, Amanda Luz Henning (10 August 2018). "Please use this rubber-chicken rendition of 'Wedding March' in your upcoming nuptials". Mashable. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  40. ^ TwoSet Violin. 1% Violin Skills 99% Editing Skills. Retrieved 22 December 2018 – via YouTube.
  41. ^ References to Twoset Violin's professional vs. beginner videos
  42. ^ Viola-related videos:
  43. ^ MacDonald, Kyle (3 January 2019). "Actors being roasted by two professional violinists is hilariously brutal". Classic FM.
  44. ^ Cai Xuejiao (6 March 2019). "Aussie Violinists Say Chinese Celebs Fiddled With the Truth". Sixth Tone.
  45. ^ Davis, Elizabeth (1 April 2019). "These are the best musical April Fools of 2019". Classic FM.
  46. ^ Lebrecht, Norman (10 November 2018). "Why be the fastest violinist if you mostly play wrong notes?". Slipped Disc. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  47. ^ Daily, Manly. "Violinist Vov Dylan plays a record-breaking 38.01 second Flight of the Bumblebee at Dee Why". The Daily Telegraph. Sydney, Australia. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  48. ^ TwoSet Violin (26 April 2019). New "fastest violinist in the world" is even faster (and more sacrilegious). Retrieved 5 July 2019 – via YouTube.

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