duo Recitals
arx duo brings exciting and engaging concerts to communities around the world. Active commissioners, our work is both at the forefront of the field of chamber music and reminiscent of the long and beautiful artistic history that has come before us. Whether you’re in the mood for something completely new featuring drums and seed shakers, or looking for an arrangement of the classics to warm your heart, our wide variety of repertoire is sure to thrill and engage you. We would love to collaborate with you to bring a performance to your community!
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recent commissions
Evergreen
By Robert Honstein
And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
-Susan Cooper, The Shortest Day
Active Listening
By Angelique Poteat
Conversation Suite
BY ANGIE CHAN-RAMIREZ
forever my grace…
by Ian Gottlieb
Forever, My Grace is a vision of an imaginary folktale where a king tasks seven philosophers to each create theorems that define the infinite. The story is inspired by the quadrivium, a four-part curriculum in classical antiquity consisting of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy,
and curiously, music. Outlined by Plato in the Republic, the quadrivium is considered the foundation for the study of philosophy and theology. Since music for medievel scholars was an essential science to understand the geometric and harmonic principles by which God created the universe, the story supposes that the philosophers’ theorems have musical realizations. Each movement of Forever, My Grace represents each of these seven philosophers’ different conceptions of forever.
sonata
by juri seo
a work in three movements each dedicated an aspect of our planet: fire, life, and water. The piece begins with a flicker, slowly building momentum into a flurry of notes continuing through a majority of the first movement, until calming back to the flicker before moving to movement two, inspired by birdsong and other forms of life. The third movement, water, has a minimalistic flare flowing from beginning to end.