McDuffie has appeared on A&E's Breakfast with the Arts, CBS News Sunday Morning, NBC's The Today Show, PBS's Charlie Rose, National Public Radio, as well as the front page of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
[1] He plays a Guarneri del Gesù violin made in 1735 named the "Ladenburg" that he purchased for $3.5 million.
In 2016, he toured to support a Concerto for Violin, Rock Band, and String Orchestra with childhood friend and former R.E.M.
bassist Mike Mills,[3] along with guitar players William Tonks and John Neff.
[5] Total enrollment is limited to 27 students: twelve violinists, six violists, six cellists and three bassists.