Shall We Dance?

Concert by Duo Amie to benefit Shelter Music Boston - May 7, 2022​

with guest artist Adrian Anantawan, violin

Please join us Saturday May 7th, 2022 at 3 pm, at the beautiful Allen House in Newton, MA for a benefit concert in support of Shelter Music Boston! The musical program, Shall We Dance?, is a celebration of dance music and will be performed by the popular Boston-based piano-cello ensemble, Duo Amie (Julie Reimann, cello, Ellyses Kuan, piano), with guest appearance by Shelter Music Boston Artistic Director and renowned violinist, Adrian Anantawan. Incorporating folk dances, waltzes, and Latin American dances, the program will include Piazzolla's Le Grand Tango, Elizondo's Danzas Latinoamericanas, Saint-Saen's Danse Macabre, Kapustin's Nearly Waltz, Bartok's Romanian Folk Dances, and more! An ice cream reception sponsored by Rancatore's Ice Cream will follow the performance. 100% of concert proceeds will benefit Shelter Music Boston, a nonprofit organization promoting community, creative interaction, respect, and the therapeutic benefit of music by performing chamber music concerts of the highest quality in homeless shelters and other sheltering environments.

We hope to see you there!

Nathaniel Topliff Allen House

35 Webster Street
Newton, MA 02465

Saturday, May 7, 2022
2:45 PM Doors
3:00 PM Concert
Ice cream reception to follow, ​sponsored by Rancatore's Ice Cream

​Concert Program

​Valse Sentimentale by Peter Tchaikovsky
Waltz No. 2, Suite for Variety Orchestra by Dimitri Shostakovich, Arr. by Pavle Krstic
Nearly Waltz, Op. 98 by Nikolai Kapustin
Romanian Folk Dances by Bela Bartok, Arr. by Luigi Silva
Danse Macabre, Opus 40 by Camille Saint-Saens
Le Grand Tango by Astor Piazzolla
Danzas Latinoamericas by Jose Elizondo

Artistic Bios

Duo Amie (www.duoamie.org), is a Boston-based cello/piano duo with an active performing schedule and online presence, dedicated to inspiring and bringing diverse people together with musical programs that capture the imagination through musical expression and visual thematic elements, and to supporting the mission of non-profits by organizing and performing benefit concerts. Duo Amie can be heard on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, SoundCloud, and YouTube.

Born in Connecticut, Julie Reimann started playing cello at age 9, studying with Aldo Parisot. Under his tutelage Julie performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Brazil, winning several competitions, including Gold Medal (New Haven Youth Symphony Young Artists Competition), 1st Prize (Connecticut Chamber Orchestra Young Artists Competition), 1st Place in the Alliance Auditions National Music Competition, and 2nd Prize (Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition Junior Division). She earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Curtis Institute of Music as a student of David Soyer, including invited performances at the Nationale Academie de Violoncelle, Banff Music Festival, Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, Musicorda Music Festival, and Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and performances at Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall during her time there. Julie received the Horace Alwyn Prize for music from Bryn Mawr College while earning her Post-baccalaureate Premedical Program certificate, and performed regularly while pursuing her M.D., and Ph.D. in Biophysics at Stanford University and during her residency and fellowship in Boston. As a soloist and collaborator, she is an active performer in various venues throughout New England and beyond and has performed as a soloist with the Longwood Symphony and the Waltham Symphony Orchestra (with whom she also served as Principal Cellist), and with the Boston Civic Symphony (as principal cellist), National Virtual Medical Orchestra, Boston Music Institute, Lyra Music Festival, and as a member of the Ellipsis Chamber Players. Julie is also a practicing dermatopathologist, and an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School

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A native of Hong Kong, Ellyses Kuan began playing piano at the age of 3. She received a full scholarship from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music Fund for her master’s degree, studying Piano Performance and Literature with Barry Snyder at the Eastman School of Music, and was selected to represent Hong Kong at the International Kirishima Music Festival in Japan. Among her other teachers were Dr. Siu-Wan Chair Fang and Paul Odette. She has performed in masterclasses with John Perry, Dang Thai Son, Malcolm Bilson, Alan Chow, Andrew Cooperstock and Jane Mcgrath. She also holds a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from Simmons College.  As a soloist and collaborator, she has performed throughout the United States, and in Canada, Austria, Japan and Hong Kong.  In addition to being an active performer, Ellyses is the music director of EKS Music School, a community music school in Quincy, MA.  She received Steinway & Sons Top Music Teacher Awards in 2017, 2018 and 2020 and was named Teacher of the Year by Massachusetts Music Teachers Association in 2020 and is the Interim President and Archivist of the Massachusetts Music Teacher Association.

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Adrian Anantawan (guest artist) holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, Yale University and Harvard Graduate School of Education. As a violinist, he has studied with Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman, and Anne-Sophie Mutter; his academic work in education was supervised by Howard Gardner. Memorable moments include performances at the White House, the Opening Ceremonies of the Athens and Vancouver Olympic Games and the United Nations. He has played for the late Christopher Reeve, Pope John Paul II, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Adrian has performed extensively in Canada as a soloist with the Orchestras of Toronto, Nova Scotia, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Montreal, Edmonton and Vancouver. He has also presented feature recitals at the Aspen Music Festival and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. He has also represented Canada as a cultural ambassador in the 2006 Athens Olympics, and was a featured performer at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremonies. Adrian helped to create the Virtual Chamber Music Initiative at the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehab Centre. The cross-collaborative project brings researchers, musicians, doctors and educators together to develop adaptive musical instruments capable of being played by a young person with disabilities within a chamber music setting. He is also the founder of the Music Inclusion Program, aimed at having children with disabilities learn instrumental music with their typical peers. From 2012-2016, he was the co-Director of Music at the Conservatory Lab Charter School, serving students from the Boston area, kindergarten through grade eight—his work was recognized by Mayor Marty Walsh as a ONEin3 Impact Award in 2015. Adrian is also Juno Award nominee, a member of the Terry Fox Hall of Fame, and was awarded a Diamond Jubilee Medal from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for his contributions to the Commonwealth. He is the current Chair of Music at Milton Academy, on faculty at Boston University Tanglewood Institute during the summer, and Artistic Director of Shelter Music Boston. Throughout the year, Adrian continues to perform, speak and teach around the world as an advocate for disability and the arts.​ 

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