Clio Duo is a viola/recorder and piano duo formed in 2023 by Inis Oírr Asano and Alexia Daphne Eleftheriadou. Both are members of the Young Artist Programme of The Worshipful Company of Musicians and perform recitals regularly around the UK alongside delivering music composition and creativity workshops in primary schools in London. Inis Oírr is a Chamber Fellow at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with the award-winning Elmore Quartet, which works in Cornwall as Quartet in Residence at the MusicAbility Foundation in Penzance. Carrick Concerts hopes to be able to sponsor a workshop with Clio Duo at Mylor Primary School in March.

Inis Oírr is a British-Japanese viola player and recorder player based in London. She is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and has previously worked as a Junior Fellow in Chamber Music at the Royal Northern College of Music. She currently holds the position of Hans Keller Chamber Fellow at the Guildhall School with her quartet, Elmore Quartet, which was recently awarded a prize at the 2024 Reggio Emilia ‘Borciani’ International String Quartet Competition. She is a member of the Musician’s Company Young Artist Programme, a scheme which allows her to deliver workshops in primary schools around London.

Alongside her love for chamber music, Inis Oírr regularly plays with the London Mozart Players, Glyndebourne Touring Orchestra, and pioneering unconducted string orchestra 12 Ensemble. As a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra from 2019 – 2021, she toured over 10 different countries.

Alexia is an award-winning Greek pianist in high demand as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. Her affinity with the music of J.S Bach has won her the Royal Academy of Music’s Harriet Cohen Bach Prize, as well as the RCS Bach Prize for Harpsichord, Piano and Organ. Additionally, she was the winner of the RCS concerto competition, culminating in a performance and recording of Beethoven’s 3rd piano concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

Performance highlights include solo appearances at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh, the Greek National Opera recital hall in Athens as part of the GNO Piano Festival and recitals at the Thessaloniki Piano Festival.

Collaborative playing and diverse creative projects are also an important part of Alexia’s musical identity. Regular collaborations with violist and recorder player Inis Oírr Asano saw the birth of Clio Duo, with which she enjoys an active concert schedule. She has also been involved in several interdisciplinary projects at the RCS Piano Festival including a project with modern ballet dancers, string orchestra and piano, performing Hindemith’s ‘The Four Temperaments’, as well as a recording of Saint Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals.

For this concert, Clio Duo will be joined by the cellist Stefan Rogers.