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Ottawa Chamberfest | Duo Concertante: Sense of a Woman
July 24, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
$35
Duo Concertante celebrates women composers with a programme including three works commissioned by the duo: Ottawa’s Kelly-Marie Murphy’s “Dance Me to your Beauty with a Burning Violin,” Jocelyn Morlock’s “Petrichor,” and Dawn Avery’s “Iotsistokwaronion.” For over twenty years, Canadian musicians Nancy Dahn (violin) and Timothy Steeves (piano) have built an acclaimed international career as Duo Concertante. Their name references Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” sonata – “in stilo molto concertante” – and these two performers, like the inscription suggests, perform with equal, dynamic voices. After their first concert in 1997, Halifax’s Chronicle Herald called them “two packages of musical dynamite that would credit any stage on the planet.” Since then, these champions of Canadian music have played more than 600 performances around the world, produced twelve albums, and recorded over 65 commissioned works.
