About

Paul and I met almost 20 years ago, teaching at the same college in Northern Idaho. A colleague suggested we play together for a faculty recital and a duo was born, lasting longer than many marriages. Since then, we’ve toured around the US and performed on stages large and small. But I think where this duo excels is in an intimate environment, acoustically amplified, with the audience within touching distance. Our concerts always have an informal dialogue, with comments ranging from Paul’s musical anthropology to my emotional insights into the thoughts and feelings of the composers whose music we represent.

Music

The music we’ve been drawn to so far varies from Bach’s Baroque sonatas, to Brazilian choros and the tango music of Astor Piazzolla, to contemporary atonal music like Joan Tower’s Snow Dreams. We also began composing together a decade ago. First as an exercise: with my love affair with melody vying with his musicologist’s obsession with harmony; then as a way to incorporate my Native American flute into our repertoire, with the piece Ghosts of the Ancient Lake. This was conceived sitting at a campfire on Lake Pend Oreille, and is often the biggest hit on a concert program.

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