West Claremont Center for Music and the Arts

The Art of the Duo is a collaboration project between the award winning Syrian clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh and Sri Lankan-born Canadian innovative pianist and composer Dinuk Wijeratne. This project fuses elements of Arabic and south-east Asian vocabulary with classical and jazz music idioms to create a new sonic world for the audience. The internationally acclaimed duo perform and lead education programs for young musicians and the general public in underserved communities. Students will learn about performance, collaboration, improvisation, and composition with the influence of Middle Eastern and south-east Asian music traditions.