Lucy Yao and Dorothy Chan will perform a free concert at Rudder Forum on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Photo by Adrianna Tan
The Texas A&M School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts will host Chromic Duo in classroom collaborations and a free concert at Rudder Forum on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Musicians Dorothy Chan and Lucy Yao blend classical music, toy piano and electronics into performances and installations that span multiple genres. The pair are also grand prize winners of the Young Classical Artists Trust and Concert Artists Guild Competition.
Chan and Yao will be a part of multiple classes in the school during their stay, exploring augmented reality, composition, theatre, design visualization and performance with students.
The free performance, titled “From Roots We Carry,” will encapsulate story narration from Chan and Yao as they play toy piano and electronics. It was premiered in Dumbo, Brooklyn, in October 2022, and is a collaboration with Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist Amanda Phingbodhipakiyya.
The inspiration for the piece started with the duo asking people in the Asian-American community about their heritage, Chan said.
“Everybody started to reflect on their roots and things they inherited from their families,” Chan said. “The things we inherit affect who we are and who we want to become. And having that awareness allows us to keep the things we want to honor and let go of those that don’t serve us anymore.”
Lucy Yao and Dorothy Chan met in 2018 at the New England Conservatory of Music.
Photo by Adrianna Tan
Yao called the show a performance ritual in which they will ask the audience to reflect on their past and their family history and discuss what they wish to carry on in the future. The goal is to have audience members walk away with an understanding of how influential the past can be while preparing for what is ahead, Yao said.
“How do we think about the future?” she said. “That is something…
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