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Chamber concert by a Canadian ensemble featuring works by Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, Ludwig van Beethoven and César Franck
Performers:
The Canadian chamber ensemble Duo Concertante take their name from the inscription over Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” sonata, “in stilo molto concertante,” which implies a relationship of two equal, dynamic voices. For over two decades, violinist Nancy Dahn and pianist Timothy Steeves have forged a musical legacy and strive to provoke thought and engagement as performers, mentors, champions of new music, and visionary artistic directors.
Duo Concertante have performed more than 700 concerts across North America, Europe, Central America and China, receiving accolades at home and abroad for “deeply integrated performances that flow naturally as if the music were being created on the spot” (Gramophone) filled with “grace and fire… fury and repose…a triumphant mass of non-stop energy“ (WholeNote). The Strad recently praised their “lyrical generosity” and” sense of constant improvisatory urgency, balanced by intimate vulnerability.”
Among their 14 acclaimed recordings are their 3-CD set Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Marquis) considered “beautiful…a reference in…contemporary performance” (Musical Toronto) and a “miracle of… knowledge and poetry” (Gramophone). Duo Concertante have twelve other acclaimed recordings on the ATMA, Centrediscs, and Marquis labels, including their two-disc set of J. S. Bach’s Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard, which received the first of three consecutive ECMAs for Classical Recording of the Year, followed by Incarnation in 2018 and Perfect Light in 2019. 2025 sees the release of two additional albums: MAIER/FRANCK SCHUMANN, and Dark Tales Alice Ping Yee Ho, based on Newfoundland ghost stories.
In addition to their dedication to the rich canon of standard repertoire, Nancy and Tim have commissioned over 70 works for violin and piano from many of Canada’s leading composers. Their 2011 recording (Wild Bird, Marquis) of R. Murray Schafer’s Duo for Violin & Piano won the JUNO award for Classical Composition of the Year.
Nancy and Timothy’s commitment to “citizen artistry” uses the performing arts to provoke thought around environmental issues in projects such as “Ecology of Being” “Taking on Water” and “What Life Throws at You”.
Duo Concertante regularly perform new Canadian works alongside standard repertoire in such prestigious venues as Wigmore Hall (London), Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall (New York City), Shanghai City Theatre, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Roy Thomson Hall, Koerner Hall, and the Four Seasons Performing Arts Centre (Toronto), the National Arts Centre (Ottawa), and the Forbidden City Concert Hall (Beijing).
Founders and artistic directors of the Tuckamore Festival, they are also John Lewis Paton Distinguished Professors at Memorial University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Admission: 100 CZK Tickets can be purchased on-line or, if capacity is not filled, at the venue before the concert begins.
