Unique duo to perform at Kirk

Duo Dialogue’s East Coast tour comes to Charlottetown today for a concert at the Kirk of St. James, 35 Fitzroy St., beginning at 7:30 p.m.

Admission is a suggested donation of $10, shared between the performers and the Kirk’s Choral Scholar program.

The music of this unique violin and organ duo of Daniel Fuchs and Mark McDonald varies from the evocative sonatas by Bach and Mendelssohn to the complex soundscapes of Arvo Pärt.

The concert program includes the ever-energetic Spring from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons as well a work by Max Bruch called Kol Nidrei, a reference to the declaration of atonement recited on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. They will also present a work by Jehan Alain, a French composer who died at the age of 29.

Fuchs, a violinist, is originally from Montreal and is pursuing his master of music degree at Memorial University.

In St. John’s, he is active as a teacher and performer, currently playing with the Newfoundland Symphony and the Memorial University Chamber Orchestra.

McDonald is a Montrealbased organist and choir director. A recent graduate from the doctoral program at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, he holds positions as organist at Montreal’s St. James United Church, Temple Emanu-El-Beth-Sholom and the Montreal Diocesan Theological College.