Our first guitar and violin ensemble - featuring the Taft Stradivari violin!

The Duo Aperio brings together guitarist Andrew Mah and violinist Renée-Paule Gauthier, two of Canada's outstanding young musicians.

Andrew Mah enjoys an eclectic career as a solo guitarist, chamber musician, arranger and producer. His arrangements of tango works by Astor Piazzola are featured in the Duo Aperio's concerts and appear on their first CD, released in 2011. Renée-Paule Gauthier is a noted soloist, orchestral and chamber musician who was mentioned in Henry Roth's Violin Virtuosos, from Paganini to the 21st Century as one of the "best upcoming violinists of the new generation."

At the Duo Aperio's Edmonton concert Ms. Gauthier will be playing the legendary Taft Stradivari violin, on loan to her from the Canada Council for the Arts.

"The program was so good and so well played that it would be hard to choose a favourite offering... The two musicians style themselves Virtuosi, and the name is apt."

- Richard Todd, The Ottawa Citizen