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Good Day Everyone,

Please see below for a free concert tonight presented by the Tuckamore Chamber Music Festival, featuring the Duo Concertante. Duo concertante is composed of Nancy Dahn (violin) and Timothy Steeves(piano), both faculty members of Memorial University's School of Music. For more information about the artists or the festival please visit http://www.tuckamorefestival.ca/.

In celebration of St. John's Day, the Tuckamore Festival presents a free evening concert at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (The Kirk) on Friday, June 22, 2007 at 8:00 p.m.

The concert will feature Duo Concertante; Nancy Dahn, violin, and Timothy Steeves, piano, performing a program of well-known orchestral music, arias, Latin tunes and Gershwin classics; all arranged especially for them by composer Clifford Crawley. These arrangements will include the traditional Irish tune "The Lark in the Clear Air," Gershwin's, "Lady Be Good," and the well known "Tico Tico" by Zequinha de Abreu.

Since forming in 1997, Duo Concertante has been acclaimed for performances characterized by brilliance, subtlety, passion, and stunning ensemble across Canada, the United States and abroad. Timothy Steeves and Nancy Dahn have appeared in London (Wigmore Hall), Germany (Am Neuendorfer Anger, Berlin), Chicago (Dame Myra Hess Series), New York City (Music of the Americas; Trinity Church), Ottawa (National Arts Centre), Beijing (Forbidden City Concert Hall), San Francisco (Old First Church), Toronto (Walter Hall), and Montreal (Chapelle du bon Pasteur), and Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art).  The Duo has also been featured at the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, Peterhof International Festival of Ensembles (St. Petersburg, Russia), Huntsville Festival of the Arts, Cactus Pear Music Festival (TX), Colours of Music Festival, Sound Symposium, and the Baie des Chaleurs Chamber Music Festival. Recent highlights include an eight-city tour of China, which the Duo will repeat in 2008, world premiere performances of works by Chan Ka Nin and Linda Bouchard, and five performances of a new concerto written for them by Alice Ho, commissioned by CBC.

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