The Paul Dresher Ensemble

Double Duo

“He [Dresher] has created a fresh, inventive, exciting, hip and immediately appealing yet carefully composed, thoroughly thought-out and seemingly spontaneous music that shows musical boundaries to be as artificial as the Berlin Wall.”
-Mark Swed, L.A. Weekly

“Steven Schick is a wizard, a master, a roshi of percussion. Schick turns percussion into a benign and exquisitely elegant form of martial art. The intensity and commitment are palpable, breathtaking.”
-The Advertiser (Adelaide, Australia)

A quartet of musicians from the Paul Dresher Ensemble will bring a program of works by Dresher that combine the Dresher/Davel invented instrument duo with the virtuoso violin and piano duo of Karen Bentley and Lisa Moore. The concert program will include two major works performed by Dresher and Davel - In The Nameless and Glimpsed From Afar - as well as classic duo, trio and quartet works by Dresher including Double Ikat, Elapsed Time and Chorale Times Two.

All four artists are able to direct master classes and coach individual musicians, composers and ensembles. Dresher will also lecture about his work in new opera/music theater, with high quality DVD excerpts from these innovative works.