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Violinist Ray Chen: Making the connection

2024-08-16T11:58:00

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Global violinist Ray Chen’s mission is to connect people through music. He speaks to Amanda Holloway about his work both on and off the concert platform – through his Tonic practice app, his social media presence and his new album

Could Ray Chen be the Leonard Bernstein of the 2020s? As a charismatic young conductor and composer, Bernstein introduced hundreds of thousands of young people to classical music via his Young People’s Concerts, which were broadcast on CBS from 1958. As a charismatic young violinist, Ray Chen is using social media to reach hundreds of millions of viewers on his own website and on his YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok accounts, with mini-documentaries on violin technique, masterclasses and video diaries of life on the classical music circuit…

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