Two by Two by Three
American Chamber Duets and the Legacy of Aaron Copland
Tickets: $35
Featuring:
Beryl Diamond Chacon, violin
Andrew G. Levine, piano
With special guest artist, An-Lin Bardin, cello
Aaron Copland’s name is associated with the identity and rapid growth of American music in the 20th Century. Join us for a program of chamber duets inspired by that iconic American Sound.
Our program explores Copland’s musical legacy and will feature his Violin Sonata, Nadia Boulanger’s 3 Pieces for Cello and three works by 21st C American composers.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Beryl Diamond Chacon, Violin, is passionate about making music that speaks to all generations. As a young Juilliard grad, Beryl broke boundaries by breaking down programming and presenting in non-formal listening spaces. She created the Guggenheim WorldBeat Jazz Series, as well as the Met Museum ‘s weekend series of Music on the Balcony, with over 2000 performances with her Piano Quintet.
Traveling worldwide, Beryl has brought her music making to St Bart’s, being presented to and playing for the Queen at Hampton Court, creating light Night Music at Lincoln Center’s Mid Summers Series, appearing onstage on Broadway as Violin Soloist with the Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as recording for legends Tony Bennett, Carly Simon and Billy Joel and backing up Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra.
Chamber Music projects include recording Joe Gianono’s The Orion, a Piano Quartet which was written for Beryl and her group, Beryllium. In June 2025, Beryl created a hip hop Acoustic version of Rap songs (mentioned in Vogue) as well as performing with her Pop Rock group, Beryllium. As a guest performing artist at the most recent Charles Ives Music Festival, Beryl performed Piano and String works of young, emerging composers.
Andrew Levine, Piano, has enjoyed a multifaceted career in the performing arts, working as a musician, arts administrator, educator, and producer. Andrew served as managing director of The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture, a project of the Archdiocese of New York, and as the executive director of The York Theatre Company, an off-Broadway theater that produces musical theater works.
Andrew is a member of the advanced cohort at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. Recent theater compositions include The Old Man and the Sea with Jessica Carmona (BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop), Spinning, with MaryAnn Frank (Long Wharf Theatre, 2019), Dora Dreams of Fire with MaryAnn Frank (Prospect Theatre, 2020).
Andrew currently is an adjunct faculty member at Western Connecticut State University, where he teaches theater management, and The Hartt School at the University of Hartford, where he is an on-staff coach in the musical theater division. Additionally, Andrew is currently serving as executive producer for a new musical called Parcel from America, which will play The Everyman Theatre in Cork, Ireland, in October 2026.
An-Lin Bardin, Cello. Described as “stunning” by the New York Times, cellist An-Lin Bardin currently teaches cello and chamber music at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the cellist for the Bardin-Niskala Duo, an acclaimed cello-piano duo that seeks to encourage empathy and compassion in society by exploring identity through the lens of music. Additionally, she co-directs the Winterhaven Chamber Music Retreat, a chamber music festival for amateur adult string and piano players in NH.
Bardin is a laureate of several prestigious international quartet competitions, including the Paolo Borciani Quartet Competition in Reggio Emilia, Italy, the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, the Plowman Chamber Music Competition, the Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition, Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition, and the International Chamber Music Ensemble Competitions in the United States, from her time as the cellist for the Vinca Quartet. She has performed extensively throughout Europe and the US, including Carnegie’s Perlman and Weill Halls, Aspen, and Vilar Performing Arts Center. Bardin’s performances have been broadcast on Deutschlandradio and WNYC.
She has served as the Artist-in-Residence for the Perlman Music Program in Sarasota, Florida, and was a recipient of a DAAD scholarship (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), a fellowship that enabled her to study with the Vogler String Quartet in Stuttgart, Germany. Bardin also studied extensively with Gunter Pichler and Valentin Erben of the Alban Berg Quartet, Walter Levine of the LaSalle Quartet, under the auspices of the ProQuartet Odyssée Program in Paris, France. Through the Carnegie Hall Chamber Music Workshops, she has worked with the Emerson String Quartet, and she was graduate assistant to the Takacs Quartet at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
A strong proponent of music education, Bardin is a founding member of Music Haven, an intensive mentorship program serving youth in New Haven, Connecticut. Raised in California by two nuclear physicists, Bardin began her cello studies at the age of eight with Irene Sharp. She holds a B.S. from Yale University in Geology and Geophysics, and an M.M. from the Yale School of Music, where she studied with Aldo Parisot and was a member of the Grammy-Award-winning Yale Cellos.
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