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Lunch with Sumiko: TwoSet Violin on that one tune you won’t hear at their weddings

Australian violinists Brett Yang and Eddy Chen set up TwoSet Violin to show how classical music can be fun, and to attract the young to it.

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Violinists Brett Yang and Eddy Chen are joking that if they must name their least favourite composer, Johann Pachelbel would be up there.

“Sometimes, some pieces are really overplayed, they’re put out of context. That gets a bit annoying,” says Yang, referring to the German composer’s pervasive Canon In D.

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