Cheng² Duo

Cheng² Duo

Hi! We’re the Cheng² Duo, Canadian musical siblings Bryan Cheng (cellist) & Silvie Cheng (pianist) 🎵

Captivating audiences and critics alike, the “brilliant” (The Times, UK) and “truly exhilarating” (The WholeNote, Canada) Cheng² Duo distinguishes itself with its uncompromising musical integrity, undeniable chemistry, and unparalleled communication with its listeners. The brother-and-sister duo is formed by cellist Bryan Cheng—2nd Prize and Audience Prize Winner of the 2021 Concours de Genève, an

Dinuk Wijeratne: Portrait of an Imaginary Sibling | Cheng² Duo 11/12/2023

The full video of Dinuk Wijeratne's powerful work written for us, “Portrait of an Imaginary Sibling”, has just been released on YouTube! 🖼️💭

You can watch this fictitious sibling of ours, Dinuk, or Beethoven (whose 3rd cello sonata inspired this piece) come to life at the link below, and it is also available to stream on all platforms as the first track on our newest album 📀 P O R T R A I T 📀

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Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada
Groupe Canimex
Thomastik-Infeld
Canadian Music Centre
Agence Station Bleue
PREDANVOIGT International Arts Management
For Artists Berlin

Dinuk Wijeratne: Portrait of an Imaginary Sibling | Cheng² Duo "Portrait of an Imaginary Sibling" by Sri Lankan-Canadian composer Dinuk Wijeratne (commissioned in 2020), from our new album "Portrait"!Physical orders: htt...

Photos from Cheng² Duo's post 09/12/2023

A recap of our sun-soaked 🇿🇦 tour—in a visit filled with superlatives, from the food to the flora and seascapes to the vineyards, what we treasure most is in fact our interactions with the incredibly warm and overwhelmingly positive South African people. At every stop, we were welcomed like family and made to feel at home unlike anything we’ve ever experienced around the world. It’s been a totally wholesome monthlong adventure, and we simply can’t wait to return to this splendid land soon!! 💛

Kwazulu-Natal Philharmonic University of South Africa (UNISA) Music Foundation The Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra Free State Symphony Orchestra Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra Old Nectar Gardens Overstrand Arts/kunste - OAK

Bryan Cheng - Cellist Groupe Canimex Thomastik-Infeld Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada

Photos from Cheng² Duo's post 02/12/2023

[🚠] From the summit of Table Mountain to the south-western tip of the African continent at the Cape of Good Hope, we’ve been wowed at every corner of the Western Cape 🤯 The magnificent majesty of the natural wonders here have left us in awe, and we’re certainly inspired heading into our last recital of the 🇿🇦 tour tomorrow in Hermanus at Overstrand Arts/kunste - OAK!

01/12/2023

💿 P O R T R A I T 💿 has been out for a month now, and we've been enjoying hearing feedback from listeners and critics alike—thank you Pizzicato Magazine (Luxembourg) and La Scena Musicale magazine (Canada) for these appreciative reviews!

If you haven't had a chance to listen to the album yet 👉 https://lnkfi.re/BBAPE9TL

https://www.pizzicato.lu/zeitgenossische-musik-aus-kanada-fesselnd-gespielt/
https://myscena.org/justin-bernard/cd-review-portrait-centrediscs-2023/

📸: Andrej Grilc Photography
Canadian Music Centre
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Agence Station Bleue
PREDANVOIGT International Arts Management
Groupe Canimex
Thomastik-Infeld

Photos from Cheng² Duo's post 26/11/2023

[🍷/🐚] Magical montage of memories from this past week in Knysna and Jonkershoek at Old Nectar Gardens, two of the most beautiful places that we’ve ever had the pleasure of playing in!! 😱

Last stop: Hermanus/Overstrand Arts/kunste - OAK next weekend—but first some days off exploring, wining, and dining in the gorgeous Cape 😁🍾🍴🌊⛰️

Thomastik-Infeld
Groupe Canimex

19/11/2023

See you tomorrow, Knysna! 🦩

Photos from Cheng² Duo's post 18/11/2023

[🛩️] You know your performance captured hearts and souls when the orchestra’s director extends and announces your return engagement in 2025 ONSTAGE TO THE ENTIRE (sold-out) AUDIENCE right after intermission 😝 Congratulations Bryan Cheng - Cellist, Robert Moody, and The Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra for a stirring final concert of the season!

Bryan makes his debut with the Free State Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Boico tonight! Our FlyCemAir ride to Bloemfontein felt like an experience out of “Honey, I shrunk the kids” 👧🏻🤭👦🏻

16/11/2023

Wonderful news today courtesy of the Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada!! Merci infiniment ❤️🤍❤️

I’m deeply humbled to be announced today as the 2023 recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada Virginia Parker Prize, the 🇨🇦 nation’s highest distinction for young musicians.

Je suis profondément honoré d’être annoncé aujourd’hui comme le récipiendaire 2023 du Prix Virginia-Parker du Conseil des Arts du Canada, la plus haute distinction nationale pour les jeunes musiciens!!

Besides the handsome stipend which will help to make some of my dream long-term projects come true, I’m especially honoured to be counted among a long list of Canadian classical music legends and heroes of mine, such as James Ehnes and Yannick Nezet-Seguin 🤯

The Canada Council has been absolutely instrumental (😉) in supporting my career over the last 6 years, starting with receiving the NYO Canada Michael Measures Prize in 2017, to winning their Musical Instrument Bank competition in 2018 and 2023, resulting in consecutive loans of the ca. 1696 ‘Bonjour’ Stradivari, to their incredible generosity in financially assisting nearly every national and international tour that I have undertaken since 2018, as well as the recording of Cheng² Duo’s most recent album, Portrait 💿

I can’t express my gratitude enough—every day, and particularly today, I feel so unbelievably lucky to be Canadian, and to be able to represent Canada on the world stage 🥰

📸: Andrej Grilc Photography

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Agence Station Bleue
PREDANVOIGT International Arts Management

Photos from Cheng² Duo's post 13/11/2023

[🎓] An absolute delight returning to University of South Africa (Unisa) Gauteng Region after winning the International Strings Competition on this very campus last year!! It was especially heartwarming to reunite with dear friends we met during the competition, and meet new ones who greeted us so passionately in our official duo recital debut on the continent 🌍

We’re excited to travel further throughout South Africa in the next weeks and play in the beautiful Cape region, including Knysna, Jonkershoek, and Hermanus! 🍷

Old Nectar Gardens
Overstrand Arts/kunste - OAK
Bryan Cheng - Cellist
Groupe Canimex
Thomastik-Infeld

07/11/2023

[🇿🇦] South Africa, here we come!! Just as daylight savings time has arrived, we’re excited to head towards summer weather for the rest of the month 😏🦒

(🟠 Bryan Cheng - Cellist as guest soloist, playing Elgar Cello Concerto, 🟨 Cheng² Duo recital)

🟠 11/9 DURBAN Kwazulu-Natal Philharmonic with conductor Robert Moody
🟨 11/12 PRETORIA Unisa - The University of South Africa
🟠 11/16 JOHANNESBURG The Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra with Robert Moody
🟠 11/18 BLOEMFONTEIN Free State Symphony Orchestra with conductor Daniel Boico
🟨 11/20 KNYSNA Knysna Music Society
🟠 11/23 CAPE TOWN Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra with Robert Moody
🟨 11/26 JONKERSHOEK Old Nectar Gardens
🟨 12/3 HERMANUS Overstrand Arts/kunste - OAK

Feel free to share recommendations for things to do/places to eat/what not to miss 😄

The Cheng² Duo's New Album, “Portrait” 03/11/2023

💿 P O R T R A I T 💿 has been out in the world for a week, and we can’t thank all of you enough for ordering the album, streaming the tracks, watching the music videos (more on the way!), and sharing with your friends 🫶🏼🫶🏼

Keeping the momentum going, thank you to The Violin Channel for this feature! 🎻🎹🎵

Canadian Music Centre
For Artists Berlin
Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada
Ontario Arts Council - Conseil des arts de l'Ontario

The Cheng² Duo's New Album, “Portrait” Released on Centrediscs, the Cheng² Duo's newest album features world-premiere recordings of commissioned works.

Photos from Cheng² Duo's post 02/11/2023

Still feeling warm & fuzzy from this past weekend’s celebrations of 💿 P O R T R A I T 💿! Life has a funny way of coming full circle: little did we know while recording at The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts in December 2022 that the first concert we’d have physical CDs in hand for would be 10 months later in the very same hall, which just happens to be one of our absolute favourites 🥰

Thank you to everyone who came to see us in Kingston and celebrate with us & dear Dinuk Wijeratne the next night in Ottawa at the National Arts Centre / Centre national des Arts 🍁 We couldn’t have dreamt up a more enthusiastic and loving full house to launch this album with! 🧡🧡

Canadian Music Centre
Canada Council for the Arts

27/10/2023

💿 P O R T R A I T 💿 IS HEEEEERE!!! Available on all streaming platforms (Apple Music, Spotify, IDAGIO, Amazon Music, etc.), digitally on Bandcamp, and physical copies on our website! Please listen, share, and comment, we’d love to hear your first reactions 😄😄 https://lnkfi.re/BBAPE9TL

Our most personal album yet, PORTRAIT is not only a musical representation of our identity as Canadian siblings of Chinese descent, but also a reflection of our desire to contribute to more diverse and inclusive representation in the cello-piano duo repertoire at large. First and foremost, THANK YOU to these incredible composers and collaborators for writing deeply heartfelt and evocative music for us: Vincent Ho, Alexina Louie, Paul Wiancko, and Dinuk Wijeratne. It is an honour and privilege to champion your music in this lifetime!

Immense thanks to our brilliant audio engineer and video whiz Yunus Tuncalı, and the entire team at the The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts (including the IMAGINE Arts Incubator Program) for their dedication to making the recording sessions as outstanding as possible.

Thank you to our label Canadian Music Centre for their partnership, Kai Designs for the beautiful cover/booklet, Andrej Grilc Photography for capturing our essence, and Agnes Olszanski and BoHo Beauty & Barber Co. for making us look and feel our best.

And none of this would have been possible without the incredible support of Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada, Ontario Arts Council, Joan Tobin and Ballytobin Foundation, Groupe Canimex, Lang Optometry & Eyewear, and Thomastik-Infeld. We are unbelievably lucky to have dream projects like this be able to be created, produced and sustained thanks to organizations like these, who truly prioritize the arts 🥹🙏🏼

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Agence Station Bleue
PREDANVOIGT International Arts Management
Bryan Cheng - Cellist

The Strad Podcast #100: Cheng² Duo on new works for cello and piano 26/10/2023

In great anticipation of the release of 💿 P O R T R A I T 💿 TOMORROW, check out our podcast episode 🎙️ which was just released on The Strad: https://www.thestrad.com/podcast/the-strad-podcast-100-cheng-duo-on-new-works-for-cello-and-piano/17157.article

We had a lovely time chatting with fellow cellist Davina Shum on this 100th episode of The Strad's series about everything to do with the new album—find out ☝🏼 why it's so important and personal to us, why this music is relevant to today's classical world, and above all, why we think you will all love listening to these incredible works, beginning in less than 24 hours!!

Bryan Cheng - Cellist
Thomastik-Infeld
Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada
Ontario Arts Council - Conseil des arts de l'Ontario
Groupe Canimex
The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts
Andrej Grilc Photography
For Artists Berlin

The Strad Podcast #100: Cheng² Duo on new works for cello and piano Our 100th episode features chat about celebrating cultural heritage, sibling collaboration, as well as how to emulate the sound of a horse on a cello

Cheng² Duo's most personal album yet shines spotlight on composers of Asian ancestry 25/10/2023

We can't wait to come home and celebrate the release of 💿 P O R T R A I T 💿 this coming Monday at the National Arts Centre / Centre national des Arts Fourth Stage—thank you to the Ottawa Citizen's Peter Hum for this wonderful feature article 📰: https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/cheng-squared-duo-shining-spotlight-on-composers-of-asian-ancestry/wcm/33658d4d-7616-45d8-9444-a2a5d3e562cd/amp/

Come join the party!! 🎟 includes a signed copy of the album and complimentary beverage 🥳🥂: https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/35154

Cheng² Duo's most personal album yet shines spotlight on composers of Asian ancestry Bryan Cheng and Silvie Cheng will launch their new album, Portrait, Monday night at the National Arts Centre's Fourth Stage.

PORTRAIT Album Trailer | Cheng² Duo 24/10/2023

NEWLY UPLOADED, the official trailer for 💿 P O R T R A I T 💿, coming out in 3️⃣ days, on Oct. 27!!!

Click the link below to discover the impetus behind this album, our process of premiering and recording these brand-new works, and many more topics 🧠💡

Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada
Ontario Arts Council - Conseil des arts de l'Ontario
The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts
Thomastik-Infeld
Groupe Canimex
Bryan Cheng - Cellist

PORTRAIT Album Trailer | Cheng² Duo Behind-the-scenes trailer of our new album "Portrait" (out October 27, 2023)! Featuring music by Huang Haihuai, Vincent Ho, Alexina Louie, Paul Wiancko, Dinu...

Photos from Cheng² Duo's post 24/10/2023

We’ve had the most golden time on the West Coast, culminating with our Vancouver Recital Society debut yesterday ✨ Thank you Terrace Concert Society, Chamber Music Kelowna Society, Edmonton Chamber Music Society, The Coast Recital Society, and Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada!

It’s been such a joy to reconnect with old friends in British Columbia/Alberta and have meaningful encounters with new ones along the way 🤗 The tour continues this week as we head east to Ontario—see you soon at The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts & National Arts Centre / Centre national des Arts! ✌️

KINGSTON 10/29: https://www.queensu.ca/theisabel/whats-on/cheng2-duo
OTTAWA 10/30: https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/35154

CHENG² DUO - BRYAN CHENG & SILVIE CHENG - Vancouver Recital Society 21/10/2023

Vancouver, we can't wait to play for you tomorrow (Sun) afternoon! This concert will be recorded live for future broadcast on CBC Music—let's fill Vancouver Playhouse with good vibes 🤗🎶

Vancouver Recital Society

CHENG² DUO - BRYAN CHENG & SILVIE CHENG - Vancouver Recital Society POST-PERFORMANCE TALKBACK This remarkable brother and sister duo were raised in Ottawa and have been performing together since their Carnegie Hall debut in 2011. Following recent prize-winning successes at the Queen Elisabeth Competition and the Concours de Genève, Bryan, who … Continue reading ....

Video premiere: Cheng² Duo performs ‘Racing Horses’ for cello and piano 19/10/2023

An exclusive first-look on The Strad: a new and EXTENDED version of “Racing Horses”, our most hotly-requested encore 🐎🐎

Watch, share & subscribe to our YouTube channel—more videos on the way! Full album PORTRAIT drops 10/27 💿 Giddy-up!!!

Agence Station Bleue
Groupe Canimex
Thomastik-Infeld
The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

Video premiere: Cheng² Duo performs ‘Racing Horses’ for cello and piano An exclusive first-look at Bryan and Silvie Cheng's energetic performance of a Chinese folk song

13/10/2023

A meditative ride over the beautiful coastal mountains of British Columbia 😍

Thank you Terrace Concert Society for a wonderful kick-off to our West Coast week last night; Kelowna, see you tomorrow (Friday the 13th)! 7:30pm at the Rotary Centre for the Arts 🎵 Chamber Music Kelowna Society

06/10/2023

Unveiling the cover of our newest album, 𝙋𝒐𝙧𝒕𝙧𝒂𝙞𝒕, out OCTOBER 27TH!! 🤩🤩

Our fourth discographical labour of love, to be released on Centrediscs (Canadian Music Centre) in exactly three weeks, has been a decade in the making: this album features a compilation of works that we have commissioned or arranged since 2013, all by composers of diverse Asian heritage. In the coming weeks leading up to release day, we’ll be sharing music videos, interviews, and podcasts going into more detail about the album concept and making-of—we absolutely can’t wait to share this incredible music with you all!!

📸: Andrej Grilc Photography

Vincent Ho
Dinuk Wijeratne
Alexina Louie
Paul Wiancko
Thomastik-Infeld
Groupe Canimex
Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada
Ontario Arts Council - Conseil des arts de l'Ontario
The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

03/10/2023

Back on the road together next week!! 🇨🇦 friends, we'd love to see you ❤️

🌊 TERRACE Oct 11: Terrace Concert Society
🌊 KELOWNA Oct. 13: Chamber Music Kelowna Society
🌾 EDMONTON Oct. 14: Edmonton Chamber Music Society
🌊 SECHELT Oct. 15: The Coast Recital Society
🌊 VANCOUVER Oct. 22: Vancouver Recital Society
🍂 KINGSTON Oct. 29: Isabel Bader Performing Arts Centre
🍂 OTTAWA Oct. 30: National Arts Centre / Centre national des Arts

📸: Andrej Grilc Photography
Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada

Cheng2 Duo - YouTube 29/09/2023

Sooooo many exciting things brewing, which we can't wait to share with you VERY soon...including some brand-new music videos! 🎬 If you haven't already done so, please *subscribe* to our YouTube Channel below so you can be one of the first to watch 🙃

Cheng2 Duo - YouTube Music of the sibling Cheng² Duo, Canadian brother-and-sister Bryan Cheng (cello) and Silvie Cheng (piano)

04/09/2023

Wrapping up the summer this weekend at Prince Edward County Chamber Music Festival! 🍷 Our recital program will include works by Grant Still, Paul Wiancko, composer-in-residence John Burge, and Chopin’s Cello Sonata—here’s a snippet from Klavierhaus NYC earlier this summer, an exhilarating ending full of twists and turns 🎢

Picton, see you this Saturday (9/9)!

26/08/2023

It’s Bryan Cheng - Cellist’s 🍾 champagne 🍾 birthday (26 on the 26th)!!! He may have had to work on his bow-hold, but his insuppressible joyfulness has always been innate 😄

18/08/2023

Great news, dear friends! For those of you who enjoyed getting to know "Aretha" since 2018, you may rejoice that she will be joining us on stage again for the next 3 years! 🤩

Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada

After a lovely family vacation reuniting at long last with loved ones back in China, I’m delighted to be returning to the musical and digital world with some good news: I have the immense privilege to be again receiving a 3-year loan of the ca. 1696 ‘Bonjour’ Stradivari cello from the Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada, the first cellist in the ’s history to be awarded consecutive loans of this amazing instrument.

Je tiens également à exprimer ma profonde gratitude au Groupe Canimex pour son générosité au cours de la dernière année, en me prêtant le violoncelle Stradivari « Dubois » de 1699 et deux magnifiques archets, et je suis reconnaissant pour leur soutien continu.

With organizations like these, I’m constantly reminded by how lucky I am to experience firsthand the way this country 🇨🇦 and its citizens care so deeply about music and the arts, actively finding ways to make sure that its artists can benefit directly from the system. In the end, when the arts win, we all win!

Thank you Canada 🍁 for your belief in the power of music, and I’m looking forward to continue representing our home and native land on the international stage! 🌎🌍🌏🎶🎻 🫶🏼

📸: Donna Santos

Photos from Cheng² Duo's post 29/07/2023

[🎭] A gorgeous venue for our Michigan debut, the Cheboygan Opera House built in 1888 (check out the stunning interior 🤩)!

We felt like we were back in Canada with the open-armed and open-hearted welcome we received, not only on stage but also in all our interactions with the locals 🫂

We’re now continuing the summer festival circuit in great spirits and heading back to our hometown for a slew of concerts, not as a duo, but in various solo and chamber music formations at Ottawa Chamberfest—see you next week at Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre!!

Photos from Cheng² Duo's post 18/07/2023

[🐋] We had a whale of a time in Les Bergeronnes, Québec at the Festival Intime De Musique Classique! We always like to squeeze in as much nature time as possible wherever we go (especially by the ocean)—this weekend we went rock climbing, foraging, and humpback-watching 😁🐳

Un grand merci aux mélomanes enthousiastes qui nous ont donné un sens de la communauté bouleversant et qui nous ont montré l'importance de promouvoir la culture et la musique non seulement dans les grandes métropoles mais aussi dans les petites villes comme celle-ci 🫂 Odyssée artistique

Next stops: New York, NY (July 23 at Klavierhaus) and Cheboygan, MI (July 28 at Cheboygan Opera House)! 🇺🇸🗽

Photos from Music & Beyond's post 17/07/2023

Thank you to Music & Beyond for kicking off our summer festival season so beautifully, and to all our dear hometown friends for coming out (even amidst tornado warnings)! 💙💙💙

08/07/2023

[🍧] The 🌞 is shining bright and strong, and ‘tis the season for summer music festivals!!

We're SO looking forward to the next two months of Cheng² Duo recitals and chamber music collaborations, collectively playing 60+ pieces by 43 composers (!) and eating allllllllll the ice cream in-between 😋🍦 hope you can join us somewhere along the way!

JULY 12, VAUDREUIL-DORION (QC): Silvie & pianist Isabelle David at Maison Trestler
JULY 13, OTTAWA (ON): Duo recital at Music & Beyond
JULY 15, LES BERGERONNES (QC): Duo recital at Odyssée artistique La Route des concerts
JULY 23, NEW YORK (NY): Duo recital at Klavierhaus
JULY 28, CHEBOYGAN (MI): Duo recital at Cheboygan Opera House
JULY 31, OTTAWA (ON): Silvie & pianists Angela Hewitt and Katherine Dowling play Mozart Triple Piano Concerto at Ottawa Chamberfest

AUG 1, OTTAWA (ON): Bryan & fellow Chamberfest artists-in-residence Emily Kruspe, Nadia Sirota, Philip Chiu
AUG 3, OTTAWA (ON): Bryan & fellow Chamberfest artists-in-residence Emily Kruspe, Carissa Klopoushak, Nadia Sirota, Philip Chiu, Sean Rice, Lauren Anker
AUG 25, ISLE-AUX-COUDRES (QC): Silvie & Isabelle David at Havre Musical de l'Islet, Isle-aux-Coudres, Charlevoix, Québec
AUG 26, RADEBEUL (DE): Bryan & Albrecht Menzel - Violinist, Sascha Maisky, Natalie Loughran, Julien Quentin at Musik Festival Radebeul
AUG 30-SEPT 3, RÜGEN (DE): Bryan plays 7 concerts with 岡本誠司 - Seiji Okamoto - Violinist, Veriko Tchumburidze, Karolina Errera / Violist, Nilay Özdemir, Mario Häring, Cătălin Șerban - Pianist at Spielende Insel - Kammermusik am Meer

SEPT 6, BONN (DE): CelloFellos at Beethovenfest Bonn
SEPT 9, PICTON (ON): Duo recital at Prince Edward County Chamber Music Festival
SEPT 10, PICTON (ON): Bryan & cellists Cameron Crozman • Cellist, Rachel Mercer, David Liam Roberts at PEC Chamber Music Festival

Eight shows to see during the Music and Beyond festival in Ottawa this July 06/07/2023

Our first recital of the summer together will be back home in Ottawa, one week from today! The Ottawa Citizen picks it as one of eight not-to-miss shows during the Music & Beyond festival 📰 See you on July 13th at 3pm ☀️
https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/eight-shows-to-see-during-the-music-and-beyond-festival-in-ottawa-this-july

🎟: https://musicandbeyond.ca/tc-events/cheng²-duo-new-worlds-nouveaux-mondes

Eight shows to see during the Music and Beyond festival in Ottawa this July Diverse, intriguing concerts abound at the Music and Beyond festival, which runs from July 4 to 17.

Photos from Cheng² Duo's post 17/06/2023

[🤩] What a thrilling night at Philharmonie Berlin for Bryan Cheng - Cellist's solo debut with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO Berlin) and Alpesh Chauhan!! Thank you to dear friends and supporters who travelled from not only within Germany, but also Greece, Romania, the UK, the US — and pictured below, all the way from Canada 🥰 — to share in this momentous occasion together!

For all of you who were there in spirit, the concert was recorded for radio and will be broadcast LIVE on Deutschlandfunk Kultur tomorrow (Sunday, 6/18) at 8pm CET here: https://st02.sslstream.dlf.de/dlf/02/128/mp3/stream.mp3?aggregator=web. Tune in online to catch Bryan's critically-acclaimed "sonorous...delicately emotional and blissfully cantabile" performance of Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 2 🙌

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PREDANVOIGT International Arts Management

13/06/2023

Tomorrow night (6/14), Bryan Cheng - Cellist makes his Berliner Philharmonie debut!! 🤩
https://www.dso-berlin.de/de/konzert/chauhan-debuet-2023-06-14/

In one week the BIG DAY will be here, when I make my Berliner Philharmonie debut in the Großer Saal, with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO Berlin) and conductor Alpesh Chauhan, presented by Deutschlandfunk Kultur!!!! 🤯

I can’t express how excited I am for this incredible opportunity and hope to share this special occasion with as many friends as possible 🫶🏼 Click the link below for tickets, and see you on June 14th at 8pm 😁

https://www.dso-berlin.de/de/konzerte/uebersicht/konzertkalender/chauhan-debuet-2023-06-14/

📸: Andrej Grilc Photography

06/05/2023

Deeply saddened to learn that the great master Menahem Pressler is no longer with us…we grew up listening to his legendary recordings with the Beaux Arts Trio as well as live at Ottawa Chamberfest, and later had the privilege to play for him several times as our grandteacher (Silvie’s professor at Manhattan School of Music, Jeffrey Cohen, was his student at Indiana University). There was simply no one who had the kind of sound and touch that he did, with seemingly endless gradations of sensitivity between piano and pianissimo alone 🥹

The last lesson he imparted on us was that “the search for, and sense of, beauty is endless”. Thank you, Mr. Pressler, for your wisdom, kindness, and inspiration—you will stay with us in every note of our lifelong search ❤️

Photos from Cheng² Duo's post 30/04/2023

[🗽] Still on a high after our completely packed, standing-room-only recital in New York at The National Arts Club a few nights ago!! It was heartwarming to re-connect with so many dear friends and supporters after more than three years since our last NYC performance on March 10, 2020, which also happened to be at the NAC and was the last concert we gave before the world shut down. Especially moving to see young audience members and siblings Gabriela & Diego, who attended both recitals and have grown so much in-between (see comparison photos)!

Thank you all for filling the room and our hearts with so much love 🥹❤️

👔👗: ATELIER ROSEMARIE UMETSU

Photos from National Arts Centre Orchestra | l'Orchestre du Centre national des Arts's post 20/04/2023

One more chance to hear this spectacular concert with Bryan Cheng - Cellist, National Arts Centre Orchestra | l'Orchestre du Centre national des Arts, and Maestro Yan Pascal Tortelier TONIGHT (4/20) at 8pm! 🤩

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/30527

Cheng² Duo à Orford Musique 18/04/2023

Ce samedi à 16h30!! Nous avons hâte de jouer notre premier récital à Orford Musique dans quelque jours, réservez vos billets maintenant ici :
https://www.orford.mu/concerts-et-evenements/cheng-duo/

Looking forward to making our Orford recital debut this Saturday, April 22nd at 4:30pm, returning after over a decade to a wonderful place where we spent numerous summers as young music students 🤩👩🏻‍🎓👨🏻‍🎓

Cheng² Duo à Orford Musique Cheng² Duo, ce captivant duo de frère et sœur sino-canadien vous dévoilera toute la splendeur des échanges entre violoncelle et piano! En savoir plus!

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[💿] The first batch of "P O R T R A I T" signed copies are being mailed out now!!! Have you ordered yours yet?? 🙃Officia...
A meditative ride over the beautiful coastal mountains of British Columbia 😍 Thank you Terrace Concert Society for a won...
Wrapping up the summer this weekend at Prince Edward County Chamber Music Festival! 🍷 Our recital program will include w...
Happy #internationalwomensday!! 🥳💜👯‍♀️Enjoy this encore (*watch in HD*) from Cecilia Concerts this past weekend, featuri...
Happy holidays to you all from two “angels” who are taking full advantage of Christmas break in Canada 😜❄️
[BOZAR] What a monumental adventure the past month has been…congratulations Bryan Cheng - Cellist on being a prizewinner...
Cheng² on Tour: Mar '22, Ep 4 (Ontario/Québec)
Cheng² on Tour: Mar '22 Ep 2 (California)
[🔄] Our schedule every day this week: Wake up, eat, drive, soundcheck, eat, concert, eat, sleep, repeat 🤪 We're at the h...