A string duo committed to new music
Young musicians have to be trained up in the venerable traditions of Bach, Beethoven and all the rest of them — nothing wrong with that.
Two such performers come to Berkeley this weekend for a duo recital in the beautiful, intimate confines of the Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts.
Violinist Ariel Horowitz and violist Lauren Siess, both Juilliard undergraduates who recently placed in the Irving M. Klein International String Competition, will join forces for a newly commissioned work by Joel Phillip Friedman, along with music by Benedikt Brydern and Joan Tower.