Duo46
Featured on New Music Arizona Concert, June 20, 2010, 3:00 PM

Duo46The American ensemble Duo46 (www.duo46.com) is guitarist Matthew Gould and violinist Beth Ilana Schneider-Gould. As artists living in the 21st-century, Beth and Matt embrace music by living composers, and their recordings often celebrate new chamber music for guitar, most often composed specifically for them; garnering enthusiastic reviews from American Record Guide, Gramophone, Strad, Fanfare, Classical Guitar Magazine, Guitar Review and Soundboard. Their intriguing mix of 19th- and 20th-century masterpieces to music that depicts the impressions and experiences of modern-day composers, captures an array of style and emotion with literally hundreds of original works for violin and guitar duo including Double Concertos and Trios with mandolin (B.A.M. with Avi Avital, Israel), cello (Cyprus Trio with Erich Oskar Huetter, Austria) and piano (Strung Out Trio with Nathanael May, USA). Performance highlights include concerts throughout the United States, Austria, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, and Turkey with notable appearances at the Kennedy Center, Herbst Theatre, the Guitar Foundation of America Festival, Entrecuerdas International Guitar Festival, Hermopoulis International Guitar Festival, New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes, and soundSCAPE Sound Performance And Composition Exchange in Italy. Distinguished ensemble residency work includes Harvard, Florida State University, University of California Berkeley, Hochschule for Musik in Wurzburg, Germany, the Society of Student Composers, Inc., Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Birmingham Art Music Alliance, and the American Composers Forum. Awards and honors include a Barlow Commissioning Grant, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2 Commissioning Grant, American Composer Forum ENCORE Performance Grant, touring sponsorship from the American Embassy and a Feline Shouse Chamber Music Fellowship for the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival. Duo46 has been broadcast via European Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, British Broadcasting Corporation, and New Zealand Radio. Scores available in a “Duo46 Collection” with Les Productions d'OZ. Recordings available on Albany Records (Aires de Sefarad, Pseudosynthesis), Summit Records (Untaming the Fury), Guitar Plus Records (Homage to the ‘50s), Meyer-Media (Fables, Forms and Fears), Centaur Records (The Guitar Music of Karl Korte), and Kyra Records (Artist Around The World Perform Stephen Funk Pearson). Formerly on faculty at Eastern Mediterranean University, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Matt and Beth enjoy sharing their knowledge and experiences with students at Arizona State University and Paradise Valley Community College, while enjoying the idyllic weather and beauty of the American southwest.

Beth Ilana Schneider-Gould has been described as "a prodigious talent, poised and introspective, and very impressive" by the Los Angeles Times. Making her soloist debut at the age of 16 with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Beth has since performed throughout the United States including the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall, and Europe with Sir George Solti and the Schleswig Holstein Festival Orchestra. She has performed chamber music with many renowned artists including Lynn Harrell and Yefim Bronfman, and has worked under conductors including, Valery Gergiev, Simon Rattle, Kurt Masur, Leonard Slatkin, Neeme Jarvi, and Christoph Dohnanyi,

A graduate of Indiana University Bloomington and the University of Arizona, Beth’s primary teachers have included Linda Cerone, Victor Danchenko, Eugene Gratovich, Conny Kiradjieff, Andreas Reiner, Mark Rush, and Nelli Shkolnikova. Chamber coaches have included Henry Meyer from the LaSalle String Quartet, Paul Katz from the Cleveland String Quartet and Phillip Setzer from the Emerson String Quartet. Beth is a former member of the San Antonio Symphony and a former Senior Lecturer of Violin, Viola and Chamber music at Eastern Mediterranean University in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Classical guitarist Matt Gould, described by his mentor, Manuel Barrueco, as "a guitarist capable of giving performances of great beauty, enthusiasm and control" is active as a performer, scholar and teacher. As a performer, Dr. Gould has concertized on four continents as soloist and chamber musician with Duo46 (Violin and Guitar), the Strung Out Trio (Duo46 with Piano) and B.A.M. (Duo46 and Mandolin), recorded several critically acclaimed disc garnering reviews from American Record Guide, Gramophone, Classical Guitar Magazine, Guitar Review and Soundboard, received awards and honors including a Barlow Commissioning Grant, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2 Commissioning Grant and Feline Shouse Chamber Music Fellowship, and been broadcasted via European Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, British Broadcasting Corporation, and New Zealand Radio.

As a scholar, Dr. Gould has given lectures on twentieth-century chamber music for guitar at the Guitar Foundation of America Festival in Los Angeles and composing for guitar at the University of California Berkeley, California State University Fresno, Harvard University, Florida State, the Vittadini School of Music, Italy among others His edition of “Aires de Sefarad” by composer Jorge Liderman has been published by Les Productions d'OZ in a Duo46 Collection of commissioned and dedicated works. Dr. Gould works closely with composers in the creation and performance of new chamber works for guitar, and over 100 compositions have been written for him and his ensembles. In 1998, Dr. Gould established Guitar Plus International, an organization whose mission is to establish the guitar as a viable and thriving chamber instrument in the 21st-Century. Besides providing a database of repertoire and established ensembles, GPI organizes concerts, residencies, and reading sessions of new chamber works for guitar.

Dr. Gould (B.M. Peabody Conservatory, M.M. University of Arizona, and D.M.A. Arizona State University) is a former Assistant Professor at Eastern Mediterranean University and currently faculty at Arizona State University, University of Memphis, Paradise Valley Community College, and the soundSCAPE festival, Italy.