MANILA, Philippines - If you think classical and pop-rock music make for strange bedfellows, think again. And whatever lines there are, dividing the two, seem to blur what with such talents as the ...

BUDAPEST — Fans rushed the stage as the first chords of “You Shook Me All Night Long” rang out in the Laszlo Papp Budapest Sports Arena last October. Young women in tight miniskirts and boots whipped ...

The outfit 2Cellos are breaking the mold of classical cello by taking on modern pop and rock favorites and their latest attempt at re-arranging a rock classic is the red hot take on AC/DC's ...

What do you do when you are a classical musician struggling to find opportunities in a diminishing market? Keep treading along the beaten path, throw in the towel, or break down cultural barriers and ...

FAIRY tales can't get any better than this; when Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser posted their cello-only instrumental version of Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal on YouTube in 2011, little did they ...

In 2011, Croatian cellists and longtime friends Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser spent $1,000 on a video of themselves performing their arrangement of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” and posted it to ...

“This is not a classical concert,” cellist Luka Šulić declared to the crowd gathered at the Greek Theatre. Someone who has never stumbled across a 2CELLOS music video on YouTube would have been ...

Stjepan Hauser has been playing cello since he was a boy, mastering the instrument's classical repertoire while studying in Croatia, Vienna and England. But he's not known for his work playing Bach ...

The term “classical crossover” may call to mind operatic sopranos scooping their way through showtunes, tenor trios selling “O sole mio,” or child TV stars taking their best shots at “Ave Maria.” As ...

In December 2010, Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser were Croatian students studying classical cello in Great Britain. A month later, they were YouTube sensations. Not long after that, they were touring ...