- Location:
- San Clemente, California
- Travel Radius:
- Will travel up to 500 miles from San Clemente.
- Pay Range:
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$200-$1500 per event
- Member Since:
- 2011
- Primary Category:
- Classical Duo
- Additional Categories:
- Acoustic Duo, Broadway Duo, Chamber Music Duo, Chamber Music Quartet, Chamber Music Trio, Classical Quartet, Oldies Duo, Pop Duo
- Influences:
- Joshua Bell, Fritz Kreisler, Hans Boepple, Leon Fleisher
Group Members
- Dustin Callahan - Piano
- Richard Conviser - Violin
Description
The Ivory and the Ecstasy is a violin-piano duo that offers listeners lyrical, evocative, and moving pieces from a broad range of genres. In the classical and light classical realm, our repertoire ranges from Baroque to Romantic works. We also play a wide range of Broadway show tunes and can program virtually any requests that you might want to include on the program. We are happy to play at weddings, private parties, cocktail hours, dinners, and receptions. We also perform in larger chamber ensembles such as piano trios and string quartets (Dustin plays viola as well as piano).
Both Dustin and Richard are experienced composers and performers. Dustin has performed extensively throughout California as a solo artist presenting standard classical literature and original works, as an accompanist for vocalists, and in chamber ensembles. As a pianist for parties and events, he has performed for weddings, receptions, and holiday and cocktail parties. He has an extensive repertoire and has performed for several dozen secular and traditional weddings throughout California in recent years.
Dustin is very familiar with the Catholic wedding ceremony, having performed as both pianist and organist for several weddings at the Mission Church at Santa Clara University in California and surrounding areas. He is currently a collaborative pianist for the Marymount College Wednesday noon Mass and the University Choir. With undergraduate degrees in piano performance and composition, Dustin has a Masters of Music in Composition from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
Richard studied the violin as a child in Los Angeles with Peter Meremblum and Manuel Compinsky and played in Meremblum's California Jr. Symphony Orchestra. As an adult, he studied with students of Paul Rolland and Theodore Spiering and members of the Pittsburgh Symphony and Las Vegas pit orchestras.
He has performed extensively in professional symphony and chamber orchestras in six states as well as pit orchestras for operas and musical theatre. He has played numerous concerts as a chamber musician and has performed both as a soloist and in ensembles at restaurants, retirement communities, and for weddings and private parties.
While new to Gigmasters, The Ivory and the Ecstasy is not new to entertainment. With over 50 years of combined professional performing experience, we will go the extra mile to make your event memorable. When you book The Ivory and the Ecstasy, we will work with you to ensure that our music is tailored to your needs.
Song List
- Adagio - Albinoni
- Sheep May Safely Graze - Bach
- Air for G String - Bach
- Jesu-Joy of Man's Desiring - Bach
- Ave Maria - Bach-Gounod
- Romances - Beethoven
- Hungarian Dances - Brahms
- Scherzo from the FAE Sonata - Brahms
- Sonata #1 for Violin and Piano - Brahms
- Three Romances - C. Schumann
- Pastorale - Callahan
- Amour Triomphant - Conviser
- Amour Triste - Conviser
- Sonatina Op. 100 - Dvorak
- Slavonic Dance No. 2 in E minor - Dvorak-Kreisler
- Six Very Easy Pieces - Elgar
- Salut d'Amour - Elgar
- Chanson de Matin & Chanson de Nuit - Elgar
- Hornpipe and Air from the Water Music - Händel
- Largo - Händel
- Maple Leaf Rag - Joplin
- The Entertainer - Joplin
- Allegretto in the Style of Boccherini - Kreisler
- Sicilienne and Rigadoun - Kreisler
- Liebesfreud - Kreisler
- Liebesleid - Kreisler
- Menuet - Kreisler
- Praeludium and Allegro - Kreisler
- Rondino on a Theme of Beethoven - Kreisler
- Schön Rosmarin - Kreisler
- Five Old French Dances - Marais
- Fascination - Marchetti
- Meditation from Thaïs - Massenet
- Wedding March - Mendelssohn
- In Praise of the Immortality of Jesus from the Quartet for the End of Time - Messiaen
- Czardas - Monti
- Opera Overtures - Mozart
- Valse Triste - Nedbal
- Canon - Pachelbel
- Five Melodies - Prokofiev
- Trumpet Voluntary - Purcell (Clarke)
- Vocalise - Rachmaninoff
- Pavane pour Infante Défunte - Ravel
- Romanza Andalusa - Sarasate
- Ave Maria - Schubert
- Fantasiestücke - Schumann
- Träumerei - Schumann
- Blue Danube Waltz - Strauss
- Voices of Spring - Strauss
- Vienna Blood - Strauss
- Roses from the South - Strauss
- Wine-Women-and Song - Strauss
- Tritsch-Tratsch Polka - Strauss
- Cantabile - Tartini
- Danny Boy - Trad. Irish
- Serenade Mélancolique - Tschaikowsky
- Six Studies in English Folk-Song - Vaughn Williams
- Wedding March - Wagner
Available For:
Anniversaries, Awards Nights, Banquets, Birthday Parties, Children's Birthday Parties, Celebrations, Christenings, Christmas Parties, Church Services, Clubs, Cocktail Parties, Community Events, Conventions, Corporate Functions, Dinner Dances, Festivals, Fund Raisers, Funerals, Grand Openings, Halloween Parties, Picnic, Private Parties, Proms, Restaurants, Reunions, School Assemblies, Weddings, Wedding Ceremonies, Wedding Cocktail Hours, Wedding Receptions...and more.
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