Music is a fundamental pillar in almost everybody's life; it's what makes an incredible sunset unforgettable, a party successful, a love declaration a little bit easier. Each one of us recognizes him/herself in one or more genres —pop, rock, punk, rap, drum and bass, techno, and more.
For some reason though, there is one genre that young people do not listen to that often: the classical one. The causes are varied.
Starting with the fact that most radio stations and TV channels play pop, rock, punk, rap, or techno music. Going from that, schools tend to focus less on the classical music culture— and contribute to creating this aura of mystery and inaccessibility around classical music and its instruments. Young people tend to have a stereotyped vision of classical music: They consider it to be too complex, intellectual and boring; they imagine the orchestra to recall an ensemble of marble statues, always perfect and impeccable, lacking emotional life or contagious energy.
There are people, though, who are dismantling this stereotype. The 2Cellos, formed by Luka Šulić and Stjepam Hauser, is a cello duo classically trained that plays instrumental arrangements of well known pop and rock songs. Not only is their music engaging and enchanting, but it is delivered to the audience with fervent passion and incessant adrenaline. The two cellists perform in a way that doesn't differ from the greatest pop starts; they waggle, they sweat, they lose all the composure and apparent rigidity that is characteristic of traditional cello players. They are not on the stage to simply execute a piece; they are there to rock with their cellos. 
Their YouTube videos too are sensational; "Smooth Criminal," their first cover and the video that brought them visibility and success, has nothing to envy the well known pop artists' ones. Hundreds of upset chairs create the oval in the middle of which Šulić and Hauser sit with their cellos. You can clearly feel the atmosphere of competition and challenge, of adrenaline and passion, the energy that springs from every corner. The two musicians are so focused and connected to their instruments that is impossible for the spectator to look away. "They Don't Care About Us," another cover from the worldly known Michael Jackson masterpiece, is another video that completely stunned me. The 2Cellos this time chose as their setting a wasteland, dominated by ruins and decay. The cello players, dressed up as Napoleonic soldiers, give life to an army of cellos that powerfully strikes whoever watches the video.
The 2Cellos, who covered not only Michael Jackson, but also artists such as Mumford and Sons, Coldplay, Nirvana, Sting, AC/DC, Rihanna, and more, are revolutionary. They are able to project the cello into another dimension, to merge all the skills they have learned during their classical training in order to achieve something completely different. They are sensational because, even though the songs they cover are extremely well known, the 2Cellos' arrangements give you the impression of listening to that song for the first time in your life. They have succeeded in demonstrating that classical music has a completely unexplored side, that the cello is an incredibly malleable instrument and that creativity is infinite. "Many people don't know that cello can be so powerful and diverse," states Šulić. As many people don't know how wide and astonishing can be the possibilities of classical instruments and classical music.
