Arc Duo
April 17, 2010 | 8 p.m. Saturday
In their home base of New York City, Arc Duo’s performance highlights include recitals at renowned venues such as Caramoor Music Festival, Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall, and Carnegie Hall, where their debut was noted by Guitar Review magazine as “electrifying, reflective, and always engaging”. In addition, Arc Duo has appeared in performance throughout the United States and Canada. Upcoming seasons have Arc Duo slated to perform in Georgia, Maryland, and New York City, as well as in Canada and throughout Europe. Past seasons have been filled with accolades and acclaim; presenters universally herald the Duo, calling their performances “musically artistic experience[s] from beginning to end”, and referring to the Duo as “an exceptional ensemble”, and the artists as performing with “poetic sensibility to all-out bravura”.
In 2004 Arc Duo launched their 'Commissioning Project'. Since then, the Duo has consistently introduced virtuosic, new repertoire for the ensemble-type to audiences. To date, Arc Duo has debuted works by David Leisner, Judah Adashi, Duncan Neilson, Shafer Mahoney and Roland Dyens. In upcoming seasons, the Duo will premiere new pieces by David Schober, Reena Esmail, and Edie Hill. The ‘Commissioning Project is marked by collaborative work with the composer and with audiences; Arc Duo commits to multiple performances of the new piece and takes care to highlight the work’s structure, concept and origins to audiences at each performance. These endeavors are being noted by luminaries in the field; Arc Duo has received
high praise from some of the leading artists of today such as Ned Rorem, Joan Tower, Paula Robison, David Starobin, Linda Chesis, and David Leisner. Arc Duo’s debut recital at Carnegie Hall inspired American artist, LeRoy Neiman to sketch them on stage.
Arc Duo has been an ensemble-in-residence at the Diller-Quaile School of Music in New York City since 2002. Each year as part of their residency, the School presents Arc Duo in recital, commissions a major new work for the Duo, and engages Heather and Bradley as educators in the classroom and beyond. In 2003, the Duo initiated a residency partnership program between Diller-Quaile and Mt. Sinai Medical Center, where they perform regular concerts for patients, families and staff at the Cardiac Care Center.
Additionally, Arc Duo was awarded a 2006 Chamber Music America Residency Partnership Grant to fund the Duo’s outreach program with Lenox Hill Neighborhood House in New York City. This grant funded a year of workshops and concerts for those who would not normally have access to classical music.
