| Abstract | Within the world of classical music, many forms of collaboration and ensemble exist, with different demands, repertoire, challenges, and triumphs. For this honors project, my colleague and I have embarked on a journey to learn, rehearse, and perform a recital of duets for violin and cello, learning about the specific challenges of such an instrumentation and an intimate collaborative process along the way. Alongside our end goal of a performance on May 4, 2024, we also intend to learn about the composers who wrote the pieces we chose to learn and the ways in which we must interact with these composers and their works in order to perform as effectively as possible. Our recital program, a link to the recital livestream, and my own program notes, along with a bibliography, are submitted as my thesis. |
