West Claremont Center for Music and the Arts

Internationally acclaimed duo perform and lead education programs for young musicians and the general public in underserved communities. 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 Southeast Asian vocabulary with classical and jazz music idioms to create a new sonic world for the audience. Students will learn about performance, collaboration, improvisation, and composition with the influence of Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian music traditions.