2025 Seed Money Grant recipient, Spark Duo, will be presenting a concert at New York Art Culture on 17 Essex Street on October 18th, 2026 at 7 P.M. 

The program will include works by:

• Like Two Ships Pass in the Night – by Whitney George 
• Contemplations by Joelle Wallach
• Various 2 by Beth Anderson
• Time’s Echo by Jinhee Han
• Meditations by Catherine Neville 
• What Does it Mean and Why by Catherine Neville 

Sunday, October 18th, 2026 at 7PM

New York Art Culture, 17 Essex St Ground Floor NW Side, New York, NY, 10002

Tickets: FREE

Kate Amrine and Ford Fourqurean are Spark Duo, performing new premieres for clarinet and trumpet, mixing solos, duos, improvisations, and live electronics. They most recently returned from performances and educational residencies in Thailand (summer 2025) and Japan (summer 2024) and are actively setting up concerts in NYC for fall 2025. They have performed new premieres and presented masterclasses across the US visiting Arizona State University, University of New Mexico, University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University and the Interference Series. They have actively commissioned a large repertoire of new works for them using both multimedia and interactive electronics. Spark Duo was a recipient of 2021 and 2022 Chamber Music America Ensemble Forward Grants to work with Caleb Burhans and Jessica Meyer, made possible with generous support from the New York Community Trust, as well as a recipient of a 2021 Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts grant, funding three new commissions by Cassie Wieland, Felix Jarrar, and Niloufar Nourbakhsh in outdoor and streamed performances in Brooklyn.

This recital is sponsored by the NYWC Seed Money Grant.