[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ theme_builder_area=”post_content” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#f5f2f0″ custom_padding=”0px||0px||true|false” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” animation_style=”fade” text_font_size=”1em” header_4_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” header_4_font_size=”1.3em” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″ header_4_font_size_tablet=”1.2em” header_4_font_size_phone=”1.1em”]<\/p>\n
4 Feb 2021 (Th)<\/strong><\/p>\n Esplanade Concourse<\/strong><\/p>\n 6:45 PM and 8:15 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n 30 min ea<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cPerformers should maintain at least a one-metre safe distance from others, although transient contact between performers during a performance is acceptable.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n As the National Arts Council\u2019s safe management measures prevent them from their usual drill of playing piano duets together on a single piano, the B-L Duo<\/strong>, comprising CSS Full Member Bertram WEE<\/strong> and Lynette YEO, will perform this programme without touching a piano\u2014instead playing electric keyboards, melodicas and even trying to sing.<\/p>\n Look out for works including Weston OLENCKI\u2019s for melodicas<\/em>, Simon STEEN-ANDERSEN\u2019s MONO<\/em> and Piyawat LOUILLARPPRASERT\u2019s Clocks and Thugs<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Hailed by The Straits Times as \u201ctwo truly virtuoso players (who perform) death-defying pianistic feats in tandem,\u201d Bertram WEE and Lynette YEO make up the B-L Duo, which is on a mission to play the creepiest and craziest music they can get their hands on. The duo is driven by the belief that much of the music outside the usual canon (especially stuff on the fringe of \u201cpolite\u201d taste) has the potential to create meaningful musical experiences.<\/p>\n Advocates of performing obscure music and contemporary works, they have worked with world-renowned composers as stylistically diverse as David LANG and Michael FINNISSY. B-L Duo have also given the premieres of several pieces written for them\u2014among these, works by fiercely original young composers like Nathanael GUBLER, Amy BRYCE and Ray LEUNG.<\/p>\n The B-L Duo were winners of the prestigious Royal Over-Seas League Competition (Ensemble Category) in 2017.<\/p>\nAbout B-L Duo<\/h4>\n