Join us under the stars at the Wine Country Film Festival!


PICTURE IT:
You’re sitting in a vineyard under the stars with wine in hand, attending…
… none other than a live Anderson & Roe performance and a world premiere film event!


How did this come to be?

In 2012, we dove headfirst into our most ambitious and exciting project to date — a grand culmination of love, labor, and lost limbs (well, toenails): The Rite of Spring: A Musical Odyssey. The project propelled our imagination to new heights and took us filming all over America, and three crazy years later, we're thrilled to announce the music video has been selected to receive its world premiere as a highlight film in the 2015 Wine Country Film Festival in Sonoma!

As a featured event, this won't be like any other premiere. Instead of sandwiching our movie amongst a host of other films in a stuffy theater in the middle of the afternoon, we'll be screening outdoors under the stars in a vineyard at the Valley of the Moon Cinema on Deerfield Ranch Winery. We'll begin with a half-hour duo performance on a beautiful concert grand piano, generously donated by Steinway, while prepping for some of the provocative themes presented in Stravinsky’s music. After which: the world premiere of the entire film on a huge movie screen (a dream come true!), a clip from Chronicling the ‘Rite’ (our behind-the-scenes featurette), and a Q&A session.

It's sure to be a grand celebration! Come early to visit the gourmet food trucks... and we plan to party hard afterwards. In fact, we encourage you to make a day (or weekend getaway!) of it.

  • Saturday, September 19
  • Food + wine trucks open at 6:00p.m.
  • Event begins at 7:00p.m.
  • Bring blankets or low-back chairs
  • Tickets here

We hope to see you there, with a glass of wine in each hand. ;) 

A&R in the Press Democrat

With their electrifying interpretations of classical music, it could be said that Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe four-handedly set the keyboard on fire. Literally.

Just a snippet from the fantastic article in the Press Democrat, previewing next week’s exciting upcoming premiere of The Rite of Spring: A Musical Odyssey at the Wine Country Film Festival on Sept. 19! Check out our latest blog post for more details on the event.

"Sleigh Ride" Score on Sale

Autumn is but a twinkle in our eye, but we swear we hear sleigh bells jingling! No wonder: our rollicking two-piano arrangement of Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride” has been published by Alfred Music. If we do say so ourselves, our novel, jazzy interpretation of this classic carol is the only surefire way for you to make a splash at all those two-piano Christmas parties you’ll be attending. ;) 

For a reminder of what a ride on our sleigh looks like, check out last year’s music video (and no, you don’t need 8 pianos to pull it off).

Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition

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We are super excited to announce that we’re the webcast hosts for this year’s Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition! Wouldn’t it be fun to sit next to us during a performance and let us give you the inside scoop? Well, guess what — we'll be doing all that and more, as we listen and watch the 24 best young pianists on the planet. The webcast runs from June 21st through June 28th. Before and after every performance throughout the competition, we’ll be preparing listeners for performances, discussing elements of the competition, showing behind the scenes videos, and speaking with competitors and people associated with the event. Like Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir commentating on the Olympics before us, we’ll get to analyze and cheer on all the young pianists as they glide, jump, and spin across the keys.

  • Click here to go to the Cliburn Live webpage and watch the webcast of the First Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition. From there, choose the “2015 Junior Competition” on the left of the page to watch and listen with us as well! 
  • Click here to check out the schedule of events for each performance in the Junior Competition.
  • Click here to read the bios of all the competitors themselves!