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Wednesday February 3 2016 7 ARTS CULTURE MUSIC INTERIOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT Operator School www.IHESCHOOL.com Call Now 1-866-399-3853 Housing Transportation Packages Available NO SIMULATORS JOB ASSISTANCE FOR LIFE NEVER SHARE MACHINES START ANY MONDAY GET TRAINED. GET WORKING. By DON JAQUE Music lovers in Yellowknife and Fort Smith receivedatreatlastweekwitnessingthetalents of Yolanda Bruno and Isabelle David whose superlative performances on violin and piano enthralled audiences. They performed at the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre in Yellowknife Saturday night and to a good crowd in St. Josephs cathedral in Fort Smith Monday evening. Brunoviolinistandchambermusicianand David a solo pianist first met when studying musicatMcGillUniversity.Thetalentedyoung womenbothintheirtwentiesquicklybecame recognized as accomplished artists each win- ning multiple awards. Bruno has played solo performances for the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Montreal Symphony Or- chestra. She has also worked in community development and outreach performing in schools and rehabilitation centres. David has toured North America and Eu- rope including shows at Carnegie Hall. Their friendship is reflected in the obvious fun they have playing together and the syn- ergy in their music is a delight to listeners. That interplay was particularly apparent in sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven. Beyond two lengthy classical numbers they also offered up the saucy piece It Aint Neces- sarily So from Gershwins musical Porgy and Bess. Their rendition of Bartoks Romanian Dances had an Eastern European flair to it intertwinedwithliltingtonesofRomanimusic. Brunothrowsherselfintohermusiceliciting the crispest notes and dramatically drawing the bow against the strings. Spine tingling is an apt description of her artistry. Davids prowess on the piano is impressive at times aggressively confronting the keys yet also capable of soft subtle touch. Perhaps the most outstanding of the pieces was one by Bartok entitled Sonata No. 2. Wild even frenzied it challenged the two performers but they delivered with gusto. Wow was the word on many lips at the amazing piece. Bruno brought a friend to enhance the per- formances a 316-year-old Stradivarius violin. She said the NWT is probably the coldest and driest place it has ever been half a world away from its medieval home in Italy. When its tun- ing slipped due to the dryness in the middle of a piece shocking the performers they rose to the occasion and re-tuned on the fly. The instrument is on loan from the Canada Coun- cil for the Arts and is valued at 5.5 million. The performance in Fort Smith Sunday night was the last Northern Canada stop for the pair as they headed south the next day to go their separate ways. Both plan an immedi- atereturntoschoolBrunotoherpostgraduate studies at Londons Guildhall School of Music in England and David to her masters degree at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Virtuoso duo charms and enthralls NWT audiences PhotoDonJaque Yolanda Bruno and Isabelle David enthralled audiences in Yellowknife and Fort Smith last week with virtuosic performances. Bruno and David in tight formation in Yellowknife Saturday night. PhotoBillBraden