The Black Cedar Duo performs at San Jose State University Concert Hall

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The Black Cedar Duo kicks off its Seven-City Fall Concert Tour at the San Jose State University Concert Hall.

With Steve Lin on guitar and Kris Palmer on the African wood flute, alto flute, and recorder, the Black Cedar Duo is the only ensemble of its kind: they use this versatile pairing to explore and create repertoire ranging from Renaissance love songs, to Appalachian folk songs, to recent compositions from Asia and our own local composers.

The South Bay Guitar Society writes:
"Something special is stirring in our backyard...an intimate friendly audience sits in the dim light, experiencing new, exciting, and deeply personal music performed with mastery. Steve Lin, guitar, and Kris Palmer, wood flute, alto flute, and piccolo, guide us on a deeply satisfying journey....Lin demonstrates comfortable execution of sustained fast fretwork. They perform beautifully together: perfect synchronization of subtle rhythms and phrases."

Shain Carrasco, Principal Cellist of Oakland Opera, will join the Black Cedar Duo in music of Cambodian-born composer Chinary Ung. "Luminous Spirals" is a highly spiritual work featuring traditional Cambodian folk melodies, harmonies, and sonorities. Ung wrote this piece in 1997 during a prolific period of composing that came after a decade-long hiatus to aid relatives and artists escaping the murderous and oppressive Khmer Rouge regime.

Mr. Lin and Dr. Palmer team up to deliver the old Elizabethan love songs of Renaissance master John Dowland on recorder and guitar, then the new Elizabethan expressions of Ned Rorem in his twentieth-century musical interpretation of the Shakespeare love tragedy, "Romeo and Juliet," performed on African wood flute and guitar.

Mr. Lin is a winner of the Boston GuitarFest competition, and Dr. Palmer is a second-prize winner in the National Flute Association Young Artist Competition. She is also the author of a book on C.P.E. Bach and J. J. Quantz ornamentation techniques, and she brings her expertise to a beautiful Trio Sonata by Quantz.

The Black Cedar Duo Fall 2012 Tour Schedule:

Saturday, September 15 San Jose, San Jose State University
Saturday, September 22 Berkeley, Trinity Chamber Concerts
Tuesday, September 25 Berkeley, The Hub
Friday, October 26 Oakland, Last Friday Concert Series
Saturday, November 3 Fort Bragg, The Weller House
Sunday, November 4 Ukiah, Deep Valley Chamber Music Series
Friday, November 9 Kensington, Second Friday Concert Series
Sunday, December 9 Soquel, Sundays in Soquel

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