"Consummate musicianship, with some truly virtuosic playing...stimulating...excellent performance...remarkable technical skill...coordination was spectacular, with sensitive phrasing and a depth of feeling in their touch. They really made their instruments sing...A brilliant performance." (David K. Rodgers, The Hardwick Gazette, VT)
"Versatile in many styles, presenting tango, gypsy, and contemporary works alongside classical masterpieces by Bach, Paganini, and more....musicians who are also artists." (The Armenian Weekly)
"Their playing combined sensuality, elegance, and edginess balanced with refinement." (Peyman Farzinpour, Music Director, Waltham Philharmonic Orchestra, MA)
The AM Duo
Emil Altschuler, violin
Jérôme Mouffe, guitar
The AM Duo is rapidly emerging as one of the country's most promising violin and guitar duos, following their debut performance at the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum in Boston.
Jérôme Mouffe is a brilliant guitarist from Belgium who has dazzled international audiences in a variety of countries, including Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Germany and the United States. He has studied at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and is the second prize winner of the 2007 GuitarFest International Competition in Boston. Jérôme's repertoire ranges from the music of the Renaissance to the 20th century. He is pursuing a doctorate at the New England Conservatory in Boston where he studies with Eliot Fisk, and is awaiting the release of his new CD of music by 19th century Italian composers.
American violinist Emil Altschuler has enjoyed ovations at Lincoln Center in New York, San Francisco's Helen Von Ammon's Emerging Artist Series, The Aspen Music Festival, and Castello di Galeazza in Italy. Erick Friedman has written of him as "a very gifted violinist who possesses the talent and capability to become a truly outstanding violinist of his generation." His next CD will consist of works by Bach, Chausson, Sarasate, Paganini, and compositions of his own based on modern themes. Next season he will be a soloist with the Eureka Symphony in California. He teaches at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and at the New School of Music in Boston.