Collaborating as Duo Sureño since 1999, Nancy King and Robert Nathanson share a passion for commissioning and performing new music. As a duo, they have toured extensively throughout the United States, Germany and Austria, with world premieres most recently in Vienna, Honolulu and Wilmington, NC. They are committed to exploring the beauty of the human voice blended with the guitar, as expressed through the music of today's most compelling composers.
Duo Sureño is committed to commissioning, performing, and recording new music for guitar and soprano, while also performing music spanning over three hundred years. Mr. Nathanson also performs on a Baroque guitar that is a replica of an instrument built for the daughter of King Louis XIV in 1687.
Works commissioned by Duo Sureño:
Open the River (2017) Andrew York
Out of Darkness into Light (2017) William Neil
Waking the Sparrows: Five Haiku Songs David Kechley
Furuike (The Ancient Pond)
Kiji no Koe (The Pheasant’s Voice)
Suzume to Uguisu (Sparrows and the Nightingale)
Kitsutsuki (The Woodpecker)
Kozan ni Fushite (Spring Rain)
At the Edge of the Body’s Night William Neil
Seven Poems
Sleep
The Room
Song of Unending Sorrow Jing Jing Luo
Act I: The Nightmare
Act 2: In the Jade Tower—Love Scene
Act 3: The Dream Scene
Cabaret Songs William Bolcom
arr. Michael Lorimer
Waitin’
Song of Black Max
Amor
Hens—–Their Diseases and Cure Christopher Gable
Introduction
Remedies
Birds
Epitaphs
Prayer
Standard Recital Repertoire:
Letter from Composers Dominick Argento
Johann Sebastian Bach (to the Town Council)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (to his father)
Franz Schubert (to a friend)
Giacomo Puccini (to a friend)
Songs from the Chinese Benjamin Britten
The Big Chariot
The Old Lute
The Herd-Boy
Dance Song
Tonadillas Enrique Granados
La Maja de Goya
El Majo Timido
El Mirar de la Maja
El tra la la y el punteado
El Major Discreto
No se emenderá jamás, HWV 140 George Frideric Händel
Four Yiddish Songs David Leisner
Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen
Tumbalalaika
Sha! Shtil!
Der Rebe Elimelech
Three Spanish Songs Joaquín Rodrigo
En Jerez de la Frontera
Adela
De ronda
Four French Songs Mátyás Sieber
Rèveillez-vous
J’ai descendu
Le Rossignol
Marguerite, elle est malade
Two Catalan Christmas Songs Traditional
El descembre del congelat
El noi de la mare
Aria, from Bachianas brasilieras No. 5 Heitor Villa-Lobos