Sydney performer Anthony Abouhamad, now co-founder of the musical duo ‘Duo de Jordaan’, has teamed up with Adam Jaffe,  his fellow student from  The Royal Conservatory of Music in  The Hague, to show off their skills in ‘four hands’ repertoire to Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Canberra and Wollongong.

The pair recently toured around Europe where they performed throughout the Netherlands as well as in the ‘Musical Instruments Museum’ in Brussels. Both  now in their mid-twenties, they are  based in the Netherlands continuing their studies in the fortepiano and the harpsichord under early keyboard specialists, Jacques Ogg, Patrick Ayrton and Bart van Oort.

Duo De Jordaan hope  become lead performers in part of the early music movement.

Abouhamad says, “We want to stir the audience’s imagination… to let the music take effect and transport them from the here and now.” A graduate of  Sydney Conservatorium of Music he has performed with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, also touring greater Sydney and NSW with Musica Viva’s ‘Sounds Baroque’ and performing in the group, the ‘Marais Project’, formed by viola de gamba player Jennifer Eriksson.

Jaffe graduated with a degree in music in 2010 from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has  performed in solo recitals in the Baroque Room (St. Paul,), the Skylight Gallery Concert Series (Atlanta) and the Monday Night  Concert Series (Charleston). In 2011, he won a Fulbright grant to study at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague.

Friday’s program will include works by JC Bach including Sonata in a major Op 18/5, Prelude and Fugue in a minor and Prelude and Fugue in C# minor. They will also be performing Sonata in C major by WA Mozart and Il Maestro e lo Scolare by J Haydn.

“Il Maestro e lo Scolare”, at Wesley Music Centre, 7:30 PM, Friday, July 19,
Friday 19 July 7:30pm Harpsichord Concert –keyboard music for four hands featuring harpsichordists Anthony Abouhamad and Adam Jaffe. Tickets only at the door.  Enquiries 6232 7248.