Frequency Series Presents: Departure Duo

8:30pm.

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Departure Duo presents "made entire", a program exploring how fragmented texts come together to form a cohesive whole. In one hour of music, you will hear flying chips of marble, shifting grayscale landscapes, and Puritanical quips, alongside sensual Joyce settings. The centerpiece is the duo's newest commission, by Chicago-based, Argentine composer Tomás Gueglio, which draws inspiration from the heightened drama and radiophonic landscape of telenovelas. We warmly invite you to join us in this diverse and growing musical world where there is something for every kind of listener.

Departure Duo (Nina Guo, soprano, and Edward Kass, double bass)

is committed to performing repertoire written specifically for soprano+double bass to show the incredible variety of styles and sounds possible through this combination. The duo regularly tours and performs recitals in the US and Europe. Recent highlights include Spoleto Festival USA, a Yellow Barn artist residency, KM28 (Berlin), Jordan Hall (Boston), Indexical (Santa Cruz), and Omaha Under the Radar. Departure Duo collaborates with living composers to create new music and, since 2015, has brought over a dozen works to life. Their commissioning work has received support and recognition from Chamber Music America's Classical Commissioning Grant Program and New England Conservatory's Entrepreneurial Musicianship Department. As individuals, Nina and Edward have appeared with contemporary music groups including Ensemble Dal Niente, Ensemble Modern, Callithumpian Consort, Wet Ink, and Decoder, and at festivals such as the Tanglewood Music Center, Lucerne Festival, Achtbrücken (Cologne), SICPP (Boston), the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music, and Donaueschingen Musiktage. Heralded as “a veritable playground for the ear” (The Arts Fuse),

their debut album, Immensity Of, was released by New Focus Recordings in October 2022. 

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Lineup:  Departure Duo - Nina Guo, soprano; Edward Kass, double bass

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Program: Departure Duo presents "made entire"

Katherine Balch - Vidi l'angelo nel marmo*

Tomás Gueglio - Murmelnszenen* (WORLD PREMIERE)

John Liberatore -

Plain Truths from Timothy Dexter

- pause -

Amy Beth Kirsten - yes I said yes I will Yes

Jesse Maker - Seer/Seen*

Emily Praetorius - Immensity Of*

*indicates Departure Duo commission