DUO MUNDI
GEORGE & GULI
PIANOPALOOZA

DUO MUNDI: GEORGE & GULI thrill audiences around the world with their exciting, innovative, diverse, and intimate programming style of sensual Latin-inspired music for dueling pianos. With a fiery synergy that captivates audiences of every generation, the unique duo creates beautifully synchronized performances that engage both the eye and ear in a dance of emotions.

PROGRAM:

JS Bach – Passacaglia in C minor
Rachmaninoff – Symphonic Dances
Ravel – La Valse
Mozart – Sonata in D Major for four hands

Since their inception in 2018, DUO MUNDI GEORGE & GULI have given standing room only performances of Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story for the centenary celebration of the composer’s birth and their two-piano program “Immigration and Opportunity” with works by composers inspired by or writing in foreign lands. In their 2022-2023 season, they were invited to perform and give master classes across the U.S., including venues in New York City and Boston, the states of Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Colorado, Washington, California, Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and their home base in Maine. They gave concerts in Mexico and premiered their four-hand arrangement of Chinese composer Shi Fu’s Tajik Drum Dance at the 44th International European Piano Teachers Association Conference in Portugal. They gave their New York City recital debut at Steinway Hall on April 1, 2023.

Their upcoming recording projects include Music of the Americas, music written for and/or inspired by children, and a series of newly commissioned and rarely performed works for two pianos and one piano four hands.

This concert is presented in part by Starbird Piano Gallery.