Alys Terrien-Queen and Donna Gross Javel bring rich experience in four-hand and piano-duo playing to their new venture, Uno Duo. Gross Javel has been performing regularly in four-hand concerts with Bonnie Anderson across New England since 2004, and recorded with her a CD, Four-Hand Piano Duo. Terrien-Queen has explored the duo-piano literature with such pianists such as Cristina Capparelli, Christopher O’Riley, and Lois Shapiro. She has also taught Music For Two Pianists at New England Conservatory’s Summer School since 1990.

Donna Gross Javel has performed at Carnegie Recital Hall under the auspices of the Leschetitzky Association and at such diverse venues as the Esterhazy Palace in Austria, the Frank Lloyd Wright Zimmerman House in New Hampshire, and Ventfort Hall in Lenox, Massachusetts. She has appeared on Boston’s WGBH radio program, "Morning Pro Musica," and has performed on both piano and celeste with the Boston University and Indiana University percussion ensembles. Gross Javel holds an M.M in piano performance from Indiana University and has studied at the Moscow Conservatory Summer Piano Institute. She has served as Assistant to the Director of the Young Artists Piano Program at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and on the faculties of the Dana Hall Music School and the Brookline Music School. She is an adjudicator for local piano competitions and festivals and maintains a private piano studio in Waltham, MA.

Alys Terrien-Queen has performed at Jordan Hall, Sanders Theatre, the Boston Public Library, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner and Danforth museums, and on college and university series throughout the United States. Her repertoire includes such monumental works as Robert Selig’s Three Cryptic Portraits, Messaien’s Visions of the Amen and Quatuor pour le fin du temps, and concertos of Brahms, Rachmaninoff, and Barber. Her innovative programs include concerts on period instruments and chamber, vocal, duo-piano and dance collaborations. She was a founding member of the ONYX chamber ensemble, with whom she performed for ten years. With soprano Maria Ferrante, she formed the duo FireStar and recorded Sea Tides & Time, hailed by The Boston Globe as “superb.” Terrien-Queen received her training at Juilliard, Barnard College, New England Conservatory of Music, and the University of Nice in France, and was a Fellow at Tanglewood. She lectures and publishes her research on music learning, teaches privately, and is on the faculty of New England Conservatory.

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