| "From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus."
Louise Nevelson |
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 Formed in 1989, the NEVELSON DUO (originally
the Smith-Petteys Duo) consists of violinist Elizabeth Reed Smith and pianist Leslie
Petteys, both music faculty members at Marshall
University in Huntington, West Virginia. Smith and Petteys have been awarded joint
sabbaticals for the spring of 1998 in order to tour the Mid-Atlantic states with a program
of American music (including the commissioned work by Michael Golden) and to prepare for
the recording of a compact disc of American music for violin and piano.Named for the American
artist Louise Nevelson, THE NEVELSON DUO is committed to performing works
by American composers. In 1993 Smith commissioned composer Paul Whear to write
"Sonata for Solo Violin." She performed the Whear work thirteen times in 1994,
in the course of a six-state recital tour with Petteys featuring American music for violin
and piano. Petteys is featured on a Koch International compact disc performing Katherine
Hoover's Quintet "Da Pacem" and the Halsey Stevens Quintet. As members of the
Fontana Trio and the Nevelson Duo, Smith and Petteys have commissioned arrangements by
Audrey Kaiser, and have performed works by American composers including Tania Leon,
William Bolcom, Gardner Read, and George Walker. They are currently under contract to edit
Marion Bauer's "Up the Ocklawaha" for Hildeqard Press.
"The programming was imaginative, their playing was superb throughout, and they were among the most gracious guest artists we have had visit our campus." The University of North CarolinaCharlotte, North Carolina |