The Carlock-Combet Duo
Biography The Carlock-Combet Duo
The Carlock-Combet Duo
formed three years ago, have continued to delight audiences throughout the Philadelphia Metropolitan and Delaware Valley areas with their exciting and insightful performances of the great repertoire for violin and piano. ‘A program of French works will highlight the beauty and musicality evident when Guillaume Combet, violin, and Sandra Carlock, piano, join together.’ Such was the pre-concert announcement for the Duo’s performance this past October, 2016, on the “Music at Abington” series in Abington, Pennsylvania. The local newspaper Inside Dunwoody, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, featured a review of a recent concert by the Duo. “Carlock and Combet are seasoned performers and dealt with the considerable intricacies of these Sonatas (Franck and Brahms A Major) with grace and precision. Combet’s soaring tones heightened the more dynamic phrases of the works. The Duo gave us the emotional lift of great music, wonderfully performed.”
Guillaume Combet
graduated with a Premier Prix (First Prize) in Violin and Chamber Music from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris where he studied with Gérard Poulet and Sylvie Gazeau, and received his Advanced Certificate in Violin Performance from The Juilliard School where he studied with Joel Smirnoff, Robert Mann and William Lincer.
Guillaume was leader of the Chicago Civic Orchestra under Barenboim and Boulez, soloist and deputy leader of the Chicago String Ensemble, soloist with the Orchestre Symphonique de Tours, and toured internationally with Les Virtuoses de France. He has performed with numerous orchestras in Paris, Chicago and Philadelphia – Orchestra de l’Opéra de Paris Bastille, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fulcrum Point New Music Project, Network for New Music, Opera Philadelphia, Philly Pops, and Pennsylvania Ballet. As a sought-after chamber musician, he has performed throughout the country including at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex in Los Angeles, the Chicago Cultural Center on the WFMT Dame Myra Hess Concert Series, the University of Chicago, the University of Delaware, Temple University, and the Philadelphia Ethical Society. In addition to chamber music and orchestral playing, Guillaume has also devoted his life to teaching violin and chamber music, and his students have won major scholarships, competitions and awards. He currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University Music Preparatory Division, and has taught at the Merit School of Music in Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Sandra Carlock
graduated with a B.Mus. and M.Mus. from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, with post-graduate study at The Juilliard School. Her principal teachers were Arthur Dann, Martin Canin, and Rosina Lhévinne, at the Aspen Music Festival. She is well known throughout the USA as a recitalist, master teacher, lecturer and dynamic chamber music player. She has performed frequently in Great Britain and Europe, in recital in London’s major concert halls, and as soloist with orchestra.
Sandra’s CD Sandra Carlock In Recital, music of Liszt, Bach and Chopin, was recorded in live performance at St. John’s, Smith Square, London, England. Her CD Piano Music by Edward MacDowell was released, to great critical acclaim, by SOMM Recordings of London. She premiered MacDowell’s music at Troldhaugen, in Bergen, Norway, the home of Edvard Grieg, MacDowell’s friend and mentor. She has performed and been interviewed on radio stations WRTI in Philadelphia, Classic FM in London and WQXR in New York City. An authority on the piano music of composers Clara Schumann and Edward MacDowell, she has presented lecture recitals on these composers at The Juilliard School, Oxford University, and numerous similar venues. She holds the Arthur Judson Distinguished Faculty Chair in Piano at Settlement Music School in Philadelphia, PA, teaching piano and chamber music by Special Arrangement.
“Sandra’s piano playing projects deep feeling, drama and excitement, illumined by imagination and intelligence. Yet her considerable virtuosity remains consistently at the service of communicating a work of art.”
