Catch The Double Duets At Cedar City’s Heritage Center

Cedar City Music Arts is offering audiences twice the talent and twice the entertainment with its upcoming “Night of Double Duets,” taking place Wednesday evening at the Heritage Center Theater. The event will feature two distinct performances—one by the Kosler Duo from North Carolina and another by the Kouzov Duo from Russia.

As board member Marty Warburton explained on KSUB’s Big Picture Morning Show, “The double feature, that's what we got going on Wednesday night at the Heritage Center Theater. We got the night of double duets.” The format was a hit when first tried last year, and Warburton said it felt “just like watching one movie, then an intermission, and then another movie,” with two completely different acts on the same night.

The evening begins with the Kosler brothers, Adam and John, both professional classical guitarists. “They kind of push the boundaries of what a classical guitar does and the kind of music that they play,” Warburton said. “They are their own bosses and playing two simple, classical guitars, full acoustic, no plug-ins, no pedals, no effects, no reverb, no echo, no anything. You’ve got to know your stuff in a situation like that where you're playing into a plain old microphone.”

Guitars First, Piano And Cello Second

After a brief intermission—a favorite part of the experience for local concertgoers—audiences will hear the Kouzov Duo, a husband-and-wife team from St. Petersburg, Russia. “They are a husband and wife duet, grand piano…and a cello,” Warburton said. “So, two different vibes, two different acts.”

The intermission itself has become part of the draw. “People in Cedar City, particularly, love the intermission,” Warburton noted. “Everybody visits with each other. I mean, where can you do that? Where you can just see your old friends and people, meet new people out in the lobby and in the theater itself.”

Cedar City Music Arts, now in its 96th season and planning its 97th, continues to bring world-class performances to the community. “We started with the Utah Symphony. We had the Repertory Dance Theater,” Warburton said. “And people love it. Many say, even though we've been around for 97 years, ‘I had no idea this was going on in Cedar City.’”

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Tickets are available at the Heritage Center Theater box office or online at cedarcitymusicarts.org.

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You can hear our entire chat with Marty Warburton in the podcast below.