Dark Tales
Duo Perdendosi explores an immersive fairy tale experience combining the arts of written, visual, and musical storytelling. Hear works by Turkish, Sri Lankan, Chinese, Japanese, Canadian, and European composers - all selected to accompany an original fairy tale written by the duo.
This program intersects the topics of research being actively pursued by the ensemble: the dark-cute aesthetic found in macabre fairy tales and the science of embodied experiences. With music and visuals, this is an immersive concert experience.
Au carrefour des thèmes de recherche explorés par l'ensemble, ce programme voyage dans l'esthétisme à la fois sombre et mignonne des contes de fées macabres et dans la science de l'incarnation des expériences.
Le duo Perdendosi aime parcourir l'expérience immersive du monde féérique en alliant l'écriture, l'art visuel et la musique dans la narration de récits. Venez entendre des œuvres de compositeur·rice·s de la Turquie, du Sri Lanka, de la Chine, du Japon, du Canada et d'Europe, toutes choisies pour accompagner un conte de fées imaginé par le duo.
Details
Duo Perdendosi
Maitreyi Muralidharan, violin, (PhD, Performance Science in progress)
Tong Wang, piano, (MMus'19, GDP'20, DMus in progress)
Joe Hisaishi/Chu Howl's Moving Castle
Fazil Say Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 7
Dinuk Wijeratne Violin Sonata, III.
Sergei Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op 80
Duo Perdendosi
Maitreyi Muralidharan, violon, (Ph. D., science de l'interprétation, en cours)
Tong Wang, piano, (M. Mus. 2019, DÉS 2020, D. Mus., en cours)
Joe Hisaishi/Chu Le Château ambulant
Fazil Say Sonate pour violon opus 7 no 1
Dinuk Wijeratne Sonate pour violon, III.
Sergueï Prokofiev Sonate pour violon no 1 en fa mineur opus 80
Wanting to start again
Duo Perdendosi presents a storytelling concert on nature, destruction, and hope.
Program
Part I.
Kala Ramnath - Aalap and Tarana
Fu-Tong Wong - Suite: A Dream of the Motherland
III. Remembrance
Joe Hisaishi/Wesley Chu - “Legend of Ashitaka” from Princess Mononoke
Part II.
Fazil Say - Sonata No.2 “Mount Ida”*
I. Destruction of Nature
II. Wounded Birds
III. Rite of Hope
Dinuk Wijeratne - Violin Sonata
III. Resilience
Fu-Tong Wong - Suite: A Dream of the Motherland
I. South of the Yangtse River
II. Sheng Dance
III. Remembrance
IV. Song of the Wagon-driver
V. Hand-Drum Dance
Dark Tales: Music Mondays
Duo Perdendosi - Dark Tales
Tong Wang, piano and Maitreyi Muralidharan, violin have toured together extensively as Duo Perdendosi: from their first tour, “Da Capo,” in April, 2023 across 7 cities in eastern Canada and US, to their residency at the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance, and the Windwood Music Festival from August 13-27. In 2024, they will be performing their second tour, “Dark Tales.”
Join us as Duo Perdendosi brings to life the dark side of fairy tales with works by Sergei Prokofiev, Fazil Say, Leoš Janáček, and Joe Hisaishi. Alongside macabre poetry by Russian, Turkish, Czech, and Japanese writers, in this new immersive concert experience.
Dark Tales
Duo Perdendosi explores the dark side of fairy tales, combining the arts of written and musical storytelling. This concert will feature works by Turkish, Sri Lankan, Chinese, Japanese, Canadian and European composers all selected to accompany an original fairy tale written by the duo and the poem Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath. The program incorporates the topics of research being actively pursued by the ensemble: the dark-cute aesthetic found in macabre fairy tales and the science of embodied experiences.
The duo is composed of Tong Wang, a Canadian artist leading innovative initiatives across areas of performance, research, and community engagement, and Maitreyi Muralidharan, an East Coast-based musician, interdisciplinary artist, and researcher. After first meeting as bunk mates at the Brevard Music Festival in 2012, they rekindled their friendship in Montreal 10 years later, where they decided to work together as Duo Perdendosi. Both coming from conservatory backgrounds, they recognized a need for classical and contemporary music to move away from convention and towards connection.
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Dark Tales
Duo Perdendosi explores an immersive fairy tale experience combining the arts of written, visual, and musical storytelling. Hear works by Turkish, Sri Lankan, Chinese, Japanese, Canadian, and European composers - all selected to accompany an original fairy tale written by the duo.
This program intersects the topics of research being actively pursued by the ensemble: the dark-cute aesthetic found in macabre fairy tales and the science of embodied experiences. With music and visuals, this is an immersive concert experience.
Au carrefour des thèmes de recherche explorés par l'ensemble, ce programme voyage dans l'esthétisme à la fois sombre et mignonne des contes de fées macabres et dans la science de l'incarnation des expériences.
Le duo Perdendosi aime parcourir l'expérience immersive du monde féérique en alliant l'écriture, l'art visuel et la musique dans la narration de récits. Venez entendre des œuvres de compositeur·rice·s de la Turquie, du Sri Lanka, de la Chine, du Japon, du Canada et d'Europe, toutes choisies pour accompagner un conte de fées imaginé par le duo.
Details
Duo Perdendosi
Maitreyi Muralidharan, violin, (PhD, Performance Science in progress)
Tong Wang, piano, (MMus'19, GDP'20, DMus in progress)
Joe Hisaishi/Chu Howl's Moving Castle
Fazil Say Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 7
Dinuk Wijeratne Violin Sonata, III.
Sergei Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op 80
Duo Perdendosi
Maitreyi Muralidharan, violon, (Ph. D., science de l'interprétation, en cours)
Tong Wang, piano, (M. Mus. 2019, DÉS 2020, D. Mus., en cours)
Joe Hisaishi/Chu Le Château ambulant
Fazil Say Sonate pour violon opus 7 no 1
Dinuk Wijeratne Sonate pour violon, III.
Sergueï Prokofiev Sonate pour violon no 1 en fa mineur opus 80
"Dark Tales" Montreal
Duo Perdendosi explores an immersive fairy tale experience combining the arts of written, visual, and musical storytelling. Hear works by Turkish, Sri Lankan, Chinese, Japanese, Canadian, and European composers - all selected to accompany an original fairy tale written by the duo.
This program intersects the topics of research being actively pursued by the ensemble: the dark-cute aesthetic found in macabre fairy tales and the science of embodied experiences. With music and visuals, this is an immersive concert experience.
Au carrefour des thèmes de recherche explorés par l'ensemble, ce programme voyage dans l'esthétisme à la fois sombre et mignonne des contes de fées macabres et dans la science de l'incarnation des expériences.
Le duo Perdendosi aime parcourir l'expérience immersive du monde féérique en alliant l'écriture, l'art visuel et la musique dans la narration de récits. Venez entendre des œuvres de compositeur·rice·s de la Turquie, du Sri Lanka, de la Chine, du Japon, du Canada et d'Europe, toutes choisies pour accompagner un conte de fées imaginé par le duo.
Details
Duo Perdendosi
Maitreyi Muralidharan, violin, (PhD, Performance Science in progress)
Tong Wang, piano, (MMus'19, GDP'20, DMus in progress)
Joe Hisaishi/Chu Howl's Moving Castle
Fazil Say Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 7
Dinuk Wijeratne Violin Sonata, III.
Sergei Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op 80
Duo Perdendosi
Maitreyi Muralidharan, violon, (Ph. D., science de l'interprétation, en cours)
Tong Wang, piano, (M. Mus. 2019, DÉS 2020, D. Mus., en cours)
Joe Hisaishi/Chu Le Château ambulant
Fazil Say Sonate pour violon opus 7 no 1
Dinuk Wijeratne Sonate pour violon, III.
Sergueï Prokofiev Sonate pour violon no 1 en fa mineur opus 80
“Wanting to Start Again”
Duo Perdendosi presents a new storytelling concert on nature, destruction, and hope.
Cary, NC - Cary School of Music
“Da Capo'' is the story of how two young people from diaspora populations navigate complex personal identities, find kinship within each other, and continue to nurture an ever growing and changing relationship with homecoming through the power of music, art, and community. Featuring works by Ho, Ramnath, Baker, Kats-Chernin, Hisaishi, Beethoven, and Fauré.
Washington DC - Salon Perdendosi by Heather and Raghu
“Da Capo'' is the story of how two young people from diaspora populations navigate complex personal identities, find kinship within each other, and continue to nurture an ever growing and changing relationship with homecoming through the power of music, art, and community. Featuring works by Ho, Ramnath, Baker, Kats-Chernin, Hisaishi, Beethoven, and Fauré.
Providence - The Music Mansion
“Da Capo'' is the story of how two young people from diaspora populations navigate complex personal identities, find kinship within each other, and continue to nurture an ever growing and changing relationship with homecoming through the power of music, art, and community. Featuring works by Purich, Ho, Ramnath, Baker, Davidson, Kats-Chernin, Hisaishi, and Fauré.
New York City - Estonian House Great Hall
“Da Capo'' is the story of how two young people from diaspora populations navigate complex personal identities, find kinship within each other, and continue to nurture an ever growing and changing relationship with homecoming through the power of music, art, and community. Featuring works by Ho, Ramnath, Baker, Kats-Chernin, Hisaishi, Beethoven, and Fauré.
If we can imagine it, we can create it. Even if only in fractured pieces, in moments, even if just here together during this hour of musical utopia, we can grow towards the values and principles of home. Of kindness. Of simply existing together. Company, community, kinship.
Ottawa House Concert
“Da Capo'' is the story of how two young people from diaspora populations navigate complex personal identities, find kinship within each other, and continue to nurture an ever growing and changing relationship with homecoming through the power of music, art, and community. Featuring works by Purich, Ho, Ramnath, Baker, Davidson, Kats-Chernin, Hisaishi, and Fauré.
Ottawa - Southminister United Church
“Da Capo'' is the story of how two young people from diaspora populations navigate complex personal identities, find kinship within each other, and continue to nurture an ever growing and changing relationship with homecoming through the power of music, art, and community. Featuring works by Ho, Ramnath, Baker, Kats-Chernin, Hisaishi, Beethoven, and Fauré.
Experiencing this music is about exploring what home means for each of us individually, and allowing ourselves to be moved collectively by that feeling. By the nostalgia, the joy and the pain, love and grief, happiness and sadness. Everything. Allowing us to notice and remember again what we miss, where we want to be, how beautiful that all is. Even if we don’t find the answers, even if we cannot return to that place, or if home was never a safe place to begin with … we can still all bond over this deep longing for home. That in itself is more than plenty.
Toronto - Canadian Music Center Chalmers Performance Space
“Da Capo'' is the story of how two young people from diaspora populations navigate complex personal identities, find kinship within each other, and continue to nurture an ever growing and changing relationship with homecoming through the power of music, art, and community. Featuring works by Ho, Ramnath, Baker, Kats-Chernin, Hisaishi, Beethoven, and Fauré.
Experiencing this music is about exploring what home means for each of us individually, and allowing ourselves to be moved collectively by that feeling. By the nostalgia, the joy and the pain, love and grief, happiness and sadness. Everything. Allowing us to notice and remember again what we miss, where we want to be, how beautiful that all is. Even if we don’t find the answers, even if we cannot return to that place, or if home was never a safe place to begin with … we can still all bond over this deep longing for home. That in itself is more than plenty.
Montreal - Kin Musique
What is home? What does home feel like? Or rather, what would you like it to feel like? And how can we remember and recreate those feelings through music?
“Da Capo” is the musical storytelling of navigating an ever changing relationship with home. And it is as much our story as it is yours.
If we can imagine it, we can create it. Even if only in fractured pieces, in moments, even if just here together during this hour of musical utopia, we can grow towards the values and principles of home. Of kindness. Of simply existing together. Company, community, kinship.
Music allows us
to remember a feeling,
and to feel that feeling.
Come join us in this co-creating this story.
Come find kinship within each other.
Montreal - Cedar House Concert
What is home? What does home feel like? Or rather, what would you like it to feel like? And how can we remember and recreate those feelings through music?
“Da Capo” is the musical storytelling of navigating an ever changing relationship with home. And it is as much our story as it is yours.
If we can imagine it, we can create it. Even if only in fractured pieces, in moments, even if just here together during this hour of musical utopia, we can grow towards the values and principles of home. Of kindness. Of simply existing together. Company, community, kinship.
Music allows us
to remember a feeling,
and to feel that feeling.
Come join us in this co-creating this story. Come find kinship within each other.
Airdrie - Windwood Music Festival Salon Concert and Party!
UPDATE:
This event originally scheduled to be held at Cardel Theater is now moved to Windwood Residence House of the Windwood Music Festival on March 17th at 8pm!
This special fundraising house concert (check out our photos from last year!) for the Windwood Music Festival 2023, what we adoringly call a ‘salon’, is one of our favourite ways to celebrate music and community - with a party! In the intimate, casual, and cozy setting of our musicians family’s Windwood Residence home, we’ll drink, eat, and enjoy each other’s wonderful company and music making. All are welcome to this Friday night neighbourhood gathering!