TwoSet Violin | Presented by Performing Arts Houston

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TwoSet Violin presents

Friday, October 24, 2025

7:30 pm • Jones Hall

Duration: 105 minutes

ABOUT TWO SET VIOLIN

TwoSet return for their third world tour, where they receive a mysterious invitation: win the Sacrilegious Games and claim fame beyond imagination. What follows is a series of musical trials that bend the ‘Sacred’ rules of Classical music. Virtuosity meets chaos, and as the stakes rise, a question lingers: who’s running the Games, and what will fame cost?

Australian violinists Brett Yang and Eddy Chen founded “TwoSet Violin” in 2013 and since then, the violin duo rose to international fame through their successful YouTube channel, which currently reaches over 4.3 million followers.

TwoSet Violin strive to make classical music more relatable and accessible to a wider audience via their vibrant online personas. With over 9.5 million followers across their social media platforms and over 1.5 billion views to date, they inspire musicians of all ages worldwide with their witty humor and their relatable “imperfections.”

The duo’s current “World Tour” has already given sold-out concerts at 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 Berliner Philharmonie. Their work has also led to collaborations in videos or on stage 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. They draw in a particularly diverse global audience including many that have never attended a classical concert before. Their mission is to make classical music accessible to all, which is at the heart of all their activities.

In 2022, in celebration of reaching 4 million subscribers on YouTube, TwoSet Violin were loaned two Golden Age Stradivari violins from 1708 (“Empress Caterina” and “Regent Superb”) from Tarisio New York to perform with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. The concert was sold-out in under 2 minutes.

ABOUT SOPHIE DRUML

Viennese pianist and violinist Sophie Druml has been acclaimed as “an exceptional talent that impresses the audience with her technical and creative skills” ( Mittelbayerische Zeitung ) and for her “breathtaking skill and emotional depth…[her] star will burn long and bright” ( Fargo Forum ).

As the Grand Prize winner of the Concours FLAME competition and a finalist in the 2016 New York International Piano Competition, Sophie appears frequently in TwoSet Violin’s viral videos as “Sophie Oui-Oui,” with over 40M views on YouTube, and collaborates with TwoSet on their world tours.

Sophie has been invited to numerous festivals in Europe, Japan, and the U.S. as a soloist, and has toured in over 60 cities with TwoSet Violin on four continents. In 23/24, she made her debuts at the Philharmonie Berlin, Salzburger Festspiele, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Boston Symphony Hall, and Sydney Opera House. Sophie performed as concertmaster of the 2019 Internationales Orchesterinstitut Attergau (a program of the Vienna Philharmonic).

In 2025, Sophie debuts with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at the Vienna Konzerthaus, and with the Bodensee Philharmonie on their Germany tour, performing Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3.

Sophie 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.

The Spooky Sale Returns

Don’t miss the fun! Oct 27-31, treat yourself to $31 tickets to select performances on the 25/26 Season, including several of the world’s best dance companies—Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (featuring Revelations at every performance), an unforgettable Houston debut by Taiwan’s Hung Dance, and more!

Performances so good—it’s scary. performingartshouston.org • @performingartshouston

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