2 to Link Violin&Viola Duo Concert

Illustrator: Zemirah -Mayah Wetherell

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0	BIRMINGHAM: All Saints Kings Heath
P	Friday 21st May, 2021
N	5:30pm

Event information

This is a live musical evening with safe social distance. Please wear a face covering when you come to the concert, and we will be asking you to check-in with the NHS app and QR code, or leave a name and an address to keep in touch in case of the outbreak of the Covid-19. Hand sanitising will be available at the entrance. There will be one way system at the concert and the venue will be sanitised before and after the concert.

In order to keep everyone safe, limited number of audience are allowed. If the start date of step 3 ease of the lockdown is postponed, we will subsequently postpone the concert.

2 to Link: Historical Violin/Viola Duo

2 to link is a historical violin/viola Duo ensemble with Miki Takahashi (violin) and Adam Romer (viola). Two of them have met while they were both studying with Prof. Lorand Fenyves, who was a musical guru in the city of Toronto, Canada at the time. Since then, Miki and Adam have been playing together in a various settings in ensembles and orchestras, but the most economical form of the ensemble was as a duo, and they have played concerts worldwide, including in Canada, Japan, Hungary, Germany, East Timor and of course, in UK. As you might have guessed, Miki and Adam are married by now and have 2 children.

2 to Link is not a usual violin/viola duo. They aim to liven up the music from classical era (last half of 18th Century - early 19th Century) by using “historical” or “period” instruments, which means their violin and viola are set up as it used to be back then. Miki and Adam have also a degree from University of Arts in Berlin for baroque violin/viola, and apply these knowledge to truly bring up the spirits of the music they perform.

Apart from playing duo ensemble, Miki Takahashi is currently a member of Feinstein Ensemble and Turini Ensemble, as well as performing regularly with major period ensembles in UK, such as English Concert, Gabrielli Consort and Early Opera Company. Adam is currently a section leader violist in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, a violist of Solomon Quartet and a leader of his own Hungarian folk band, “Folktone.”

There are a lot of unknown gems of violin/viola duets from classical era, and 2 to Link hopes to covey the charm of these music to the wider audience. Here is the ink to Vimeo showcase page where you can listen to some of the home recorded video of us.

https://vimeo.com/showcase/8185453


Programme:
W.A.Mozart: Duo in G major KV423
Allegro
Adagio
Rondeau

Franz Anton Hoffmeister: Duo Op.19 No.2
Adagio
Allegro

Green Sleeves variations to a Ground with Division, from “The Division Violin”

Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni: Duo in D major Op.25 No.1
Allegro moderato sostenuto
Allegretto Scherzando

The last piece of music was composed by an Italian violinist, Antonio Bruni, and 2021 is his 200 memorial year! To celebrate this, we have collaborated with an illustrator Zemirah -Mayah Wetherell. She has made an illustration in the image of his piece of music, and you’ll get to bring home the postcard of the illustration at the end of the concert!