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Duo Concertante guest hosts CBC Radio’s “This Is My Music”
We so enjoyed guest hosting CBC radio’s "This is My Music", sharing music we love and the stories behind them. Here’s a link to the show!
John Lewis Paton Award and a NEW website launch
Last week, we were honoured to jointly receive the John Lewis Paton Distinguished University Professorship from Memorial University. This award recognizes faculty who “embody the university's mission by demonstrating exceptional teaching, undertaking world-class...
Ecology of Being Film
Happy to publicly release Melissa Hui’s Ecology of Being film, directed by Nicola Hawkins with poetry by Shannon Webb-Campbell. This film was a direct result of Covid-19 restrictions and grew into a family affair with the involvement of our actor daughter Clara and...
Film Festival Win and CBC “This is My Music”
So, things haven’t gone quite according to plan. All our live summer festival performances didn’t happen and many future tours are either up in the air or postponed. But we’ve been extremely fortunate to be able to keep making music together and have actually had...
Ecology of Being Promo
New Recording of Complete Schubert
We’re super thrilled to announce the release of the complete works for violin and piano by Schubert! His magical, mysterious, deeply poignant and intimate music is near and dear to our hearts and has been part of our repertoire for many years. Never-the-less, it took...
Three in a Row
We were super surprised - not to mentioned SO delighted - to receive, for the third year running, the 2019 ECMA for Classical Recording of the Year. This special recognition, for our holiday album Perfect Light, was extra meaningful because of Clifford Crawley’s role...
Incarnation
Our newest CD - Incarnation - comes out in May and contains five pieces written especially for us by Chan Ka Nan, Denis Gougeon, Alice Ho, Jocelyn Morlock and Andrew Staniland. Tim and I are extremely proud of this disc and I’d like to try to put in words some of why...
Remembering my Mom
This summer was difficult, exhausting, heart breaking but also deeply intense, almost magical. Tim and I spent much of it in Nova Scotia with my mother who was very ill with congestive heart failure. Throughout I tried to keep practicing – often in hospital chapels or...
J. S. Bach and Germany
We're thrilled to celebrate the official release of our new CD J.S. Bach: Six Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard. This is tremendously beautiful music and recording these sonatas was both a richly rewarding process and a somewhat daunting one - the enormity of a genius...
Double Concerto CD is here! (And a bit about how it all came to pass…)
We’re excited to announce the release of our new CD of Double Concertos by Andrew P. MacDonald and Mendelssohn, with the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra and Marc David! Some of the highlights on the rather long journey to making this disc: - Over 15 years ago: After...
