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From choosing music, commissioning composers to write new works, and booking recording time, to production, marketing, and distribution, each album is a major undertaking.

With live concerts on the verge of returning to state stages, the Indiana Arts Commission has awarded classical flute and guitar chamber music ensemble Duo Sequenza an Arts Project Support Grant for the fifth consecutive year.

As a duo, we perform works from our repertoire featuring living composers. A few come with backstories, and we'd like to share them.

A few years ago, violist and radio commentator Miles Hoffman wrote an op-ed piece for The New York Times about what he called Classical Music Insecurity Complex.

Ask any working classical musician what the most difficult part of their work life is, and you'll rarely hear about the music. In some ways, music is the easy part. It's the business of music that's the hard part.