COULOIR premiers “Dvandva”

On recent tour COULOIR premiered Dvandva, a new work by celebrated Vancouver composer Jeffrey Ryan, to enthusiastic BC audiences.

Dvandva is a Sanskrit term derived from dva (“two”), and refers to a word comprised of two other words, each equally important or of equal value, which in English would be joined by the word and.

“When harpist Heidi Krutzen and cellist Ariel Barnes invited me to write a major work for them and we began talking about inspiration, I realised that a performing duo is a dvandva: two players of equal importance, each a fantastic musician individually, yet becoming a new entity when joined by an and.”