D’AMORE DUO
ABOUT
Founded in 1991, the D’Amore Duo, in its present incarnation, brings together the rich and intoxicating sounds of the viola and guitar. Over the years, they have collaborated with such composers as Jose Lezcano, Albert Harris, Ronald Pearl, Marcelo Ferraris, Dimitris Kapsomenos, and actor Michael Moriarty.
They have performed at venues including St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, the National Gallery, and the Smithsonian in Washington DC, the Bedrich Smetana Museum in Prague, the Spanish Museum in New York City, live on ABC radio in Sydney, ProMusica in San Migel de Allende, Mexico, and the Yale Centre for British Art.
They are two time winners of the Baltimore Chamber Music Competition and have toured extensively through the Midwestern US for Allied Concerts Inc.
“A perfect partnership of sound.”
— The Washington Post
Dan Zhang
VIOLA
Violist Dan Zhang has concertized throughout Europe, the United States, Asia, and South America as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestra musician.
Dr. Zhang has had the honor of numerous awards. She was the prizewinner of the First China Viola Festival and Competition, and won first prize in the Shenandoah Conservatory Concerto competition. She won the Gold Prize of the 3rd Hong Kong International Strings Competition. She also participated in the International Max Rostal Competition in Berlin, and was a finalist of the International Anton Rubinstein Viola Competition in Dusseldorf, Germany.
She serves as artistic director of “The Sound of Piano, Strings and Voice International Music Festival” based in Xi’an, China.
WILLIAM FEASLEY
GUITAR
William Feasley’s guitar has been described by Joseph MacLellan of The Washington Post as “in the words of Segovia, sounding like a small orchestra in its variety of colors.”
Chosen to perform for Andres Segovia’s historic last masterclass at the University of Southern California in 1986, William was included the following year on the CBS special, Eulogy of Segovia. He was the first guitarist to be awarded Peabody Conservatory’ coveted Artist Diploma.
His professional debut was with the San Francisco Ballet in 1980, where he performed Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez and Fantasia para un Gentilhombre.
Since that time he has toured throughout the United States as well as internationally to venues as the National Gallery, the Phillips Collection, Tegucigalpa’s Teatro de Manuel Bonilla, the University of Auckland, Christchurch’s Arts Center and guitar festivals in the Czech Republic, Poland, Ecuador, Bolivia and Slovakia.
