violinist & educator

Sometimes when the timing is just right, new ideas will transform into brilliant projects.  I’ve been playing in this violin-viola duo for about a year now, but we were never seriously interested in taking it to the next level.  One reason is that we are living very far apart (New York and Boston), so it is somewhat difficult to get together and play.  Plus, we both have independent lives in which we are very busy with teaching, performing other gigs and concerts with various other musicians.  

But it just so happens that around this time—festivals and audition time—that we start to think more seriously about what our goals are.   We have a couple gigs coming up in the next few months along with some auditions.  We are so serious that we even thought of a name for ourselves: Luna Duo.  How did we come up with this name?  I’ve always had a fascination with astronomy and the solar system, yet not knowing much about astrology, I feel a strong connection with the moon, more so than the sun.  Some people call it, the “midnight sun” with some dark and menacing connotation with it, but to me, the moon is angelic, peaceful and bright, with many changing facets depending on how you look at it.  I feel that this name fits us as musicians very well.  Not only do we need light that shine upon us, we love to shine our own light upon the music we play.   Thus we love to play new and old music, popular and under-performed works, inundated with our own emotions and  interpretation of what the music means to us.  We hope some of you will consider attending one of our concerts as it will mean a great deal to us.  Thank you for your support and stayed tuned for more updates about Luna Duo.