Pushing the traditional boundaries of the violin/piano recital experience for over 20 years, the Stuart-Ivanov Duo (violinist Carolyn Stuart and pianist Svetozar Ivanov), performs repertoire spanning five centuries including masterworks, lesser-known gems, and commissions. The duo’s concerts often feature multimedia formats that incorporate film, dance, poetry, short stories, audience interaction, and visual art.
Released on Gega New, their debut CD Nikolai Roslavets - Short Works for Violin and Piano features multiple unpublished works by the repressed Soviet composer. They continue to forge new ground with the upcoming CD release Butterfly Dreams highlighting commissions by composers Augusta Read Thomas, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Sahba Aminikia, Michael Ippolito, Evan Chambers, and Stacy Garrop.
Waltz, from Three Dances
by Nikolai Roslavets
Selected Stuart-Ivanov Duo Multimedia Projects:
I Love Paris theatre, original film, animation, voice, poetry, audience participationmusic of Satie, Ippolito, Frances-Hoad, Chambers, Schnittke, Aminikia, Stravinsky, Francouer, Shchedrin, and Porter
The Armoireviolin/piano music of Nikolai Roslavets combined with documentary footage from Soviet Russia poetry by Anna Akhmatova, and banned Soviet animation
In Time of Daffodilsfilm footage, animation, and paintings, poetry by e.e. cummings, field recordings from Ukrainecombined with music by Schnittke, Auerbach, Stravinsky, Shchedrin, and Silvestrov
Last Year at Marienbad violin/harpsichord works from the French Baroque - Francoeur, Rameau 20th Century duos by Crumb, Cage, Penderecki, Xenakis, Messiaenfilm footage from Alain Resnais’ L’année dernière à Marienbad
Audio Vignettes works by Cowell, Ustvolskaya, Aminikia, and Auerbachaudio recordings of Italy’s Brancaleoni Castle bellspoetry of Edgar Allan Poe
Dreamtigers music by Rorem, Feldman, Webern, Lutoslawski, Penderecki, Helpspoems by e.e.cummingsshort stories by Jorge Luis Borges
Paris at Nightpoetry by Jacques Prevertfilm footage by Rene Clair
works by J. Kosma, Satie, Debussy, Boulanger, Stravinsky, Ravel, Messiaen, and Porter