NINETY-FIFTH SEASON
Tuesday, October 14, 2025, at 7:30
TWOSET VIOLIN
Brett Yang Violin
Eddy Chen Violin
Sophie Druml Piano
The program will be announced from the stage.
There will be no intermission.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.
TwoSet Violin with Brett Yang and Eddy Chen
Australian violinists Brett Yang and Eddy Chen founded TwoSet Violin in 2013, and since then, the violin duo has gained international fame through their successful YouTube channel, which currently reaches over 4.3 million followers.
TwoSet Violin strives to make classical music more relatable and accessible to a wider audience via Yang and Chen’s vibrant online personas. With over 9.5 million followers across their social media platforms and over 1.5 billion views to date, Yang and Chen inspire musicians of all ages worldwide with their witty humor and their relatable “imperfections.”
The duo’s world tours have already sold out concert venues such as
Boston’s Symphony Hall, New York’s David Geffen Hall, Chicago’s Symphony Center, Seattle’s Benaroya Hall, Sydney Opera House, and Kammermusiksaal at the Berlin Philharmonie. The duo’s work has also led to collaborations in videos or onstage with world-class soloists such as Lang Lang, James Ehnes, Janine Jansen, Maxim Vengerov, and Hilary Hahn.
TwoSet Violin’s one-of-a-kind live performances offer a unique interactive experience for audiences, seamlessly weaving current social media trends into the fabric of traditional classical concerts, all while upholding the integrity of classical music. The duo draws in a particularly diverse global audience including many that have never attended a classical concert before. Its mission is to make classical music accessible to all, which is at the heart of all its activities.
In 2022, in celebration of reaching 4 million subscribers on YouTube, TwoSet Violin were loaned two “Golden Period” Stradivari violins from 1708 (“Empress Caterina” and “Regent Superb”) from Tarisio New York to perform with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. The concert sold out in under 2 minutes.
Sophie Druml Piano
Viennese pianist and violinist Sophie Druml has been acclaimed for her talent, technical, and creative skills paired with emotional depth. As the grand prize winner of the Concours FLAME competition and a finalist in the 2016 New York International Piano Competition, Druml appears frequently in TwoSet Violin’s viral videos as “Sophie Oui-Oui,” with more than 40 million views on YouTube; she also collaborates with TwoSet on their world tours.
Druml has been invited to many festivals in Europe, Japan, and the United States as a soloist, and has toured in more than sixty cities with
TwoSet Violin on four continents. During the 2023–24 season, she made debuts at the Philharmonie Berlin, Salzburger Festspiele, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Boston Symphony Hall, and the Sydney Opera House. She performed as concertmaster of the 2019 Internationales Orchesterinstitut Attergau (a program of the Vienna Philharmonic).
Druml’s recent performances include solo debuts with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at the Vienna Konzerthaus, and with the Bodensee Philharmonie on its tour of Germany, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 3.
She performs on a Pierre Silvestre “ex-Moser” violin (1830) and a Vuillaume “ex-Applebaum” violin (1858), which was awarded to her by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank.
SYMPHONY CENTER PRESENTS
Jeff Alexander Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association President
Cristina Rocca Vice President for Artistic Administration
The Richard and Mary L. Gray Chair
James M. Fahey Senior Director, Programming, Symphony Center Presents Lena Breitkreuz Artist Manager, Symphony Center Presents Michael Lavin Director of Production
Joseph Sherman Associate Director of Production, SCP and Rental Events
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