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.