4HandsLA - Paris 1913

4HandsLA is L.A.'s "dazzlingly young" (Los Angeles Times) piano duo. Regular performers on the Jacaranda: Music on the Edge of Santa Monica series, the energetic duo of Steven Vanhauwaert and Danny Holt was introduced to audiences in 2009 in a performance of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. The Huffington Post wrote that the duo's performance "created a sensation", and LAOpus said of their Stravinsky performance: "The four-hand piano Sacre blazed like a comet through the hall. Both illuminating and liberating, one could only stand mute at the work's astounding musical structure. Vanhauwaert and Holt tore into this piece like furies, undeterred by daunting challenges. It was a performance at turns propulsive and precise, aggressive and tender. What aplomb these two demonstrated!" 4HandsLA was recently among seven finalists at the Liszt 200 Chicago International Duo Piano Competition, and the duo's debut CD, 'Paris 1913' features their signature Stravinsky alongside other contemporaneous four-hand works from Paris by Ravel, Satie, and Poulenc.