Our First Year

It’s been a wonderful year of making music!

2023 marks the founding of our duo, and our next performance was unintentionally scheduled as an anniversary recital! What started as a simple sight reading session on December 16, 2022, Antonio armed with music and Lindsay knowing nothing other than Piazzola’s Histoire du Tango, we’ve now performed a dozen times, have a website, hours worth of music at the ready, and a new composition written for us!

What we will play on December 16, 2023

We’re thrilled to be featuring this new work by Lincoln composer David von Kampen at our December 16, 2023 performance in the Nebraska State Capitol. After reconnecting with Lindsay, David offered to write something for the duo. His first time writing for classical guitar, it’s been a true collaboration between Antonio and David to find how best to present David’s ideas through the guitar, with changes to make it as approachable as possible by Antonio. We think this piece, Suite: Seven Moods for Flute and Guitar, is quite a unique addition to the repertoire, and we couldn’t be more thankful to David for taking the chance on writing for us!

We hope to see you at the accidental-anniversary-not-quite-a-holiday-show. Not only will you hear the new piece by DVK but a couple holiday favorites (hand picked by Lindsay aka Scrooge), arrangements by Antonio, Pujol’s Dos aires candomberos, the classic Molino’s Nocturne, and of course you’ll enjoy the beauty of Nebraska’s Capitol Building and the holiday decorations.

We look forward to the final performance for us this year, and all that 2024 has to offer.

What’s next

Our next event will be at The Landing on January 18, 2024.

— La Dolce Vita Duo

Published on 2023-12-16