The Birk and Hoke Duo

Eric Birk and Bernadette Hoke have been performing as a keyboard duo since 1995, engaging audiences and critics alike with their impressive ensemble and expressive artistry. The husband and wife duo "played with a pleasing precision that never impinged upon fluid ease" in their Weill Hall debut recital, according to New York Concert Review. Specializing in repertoire for four hands at one piano, Birk & Hoke have appeared on concert series in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Texas. In the New York City area they have performed on the Noonday Concert Series in St. Paul's Chapel, the Friends and Enemies of New Music series, St. Paul's Festival of the Arts in Nyack, New York and the Freeport Memorial Library series in Freeport, Long Island. In the fall of 2006, they performed at Wagner College, Staten Island, NY and at the Center for Chamber Music in Greenwich, Connecticut.

As Chamber Music Award Winners of the 28th annual Artist International Auditions, they were presented in a sold out debut recital in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall during the 2000-2001 season. On that program they performed the U.S. premiere of the "Silent Flickers" by New York composer Jack Gottlieb. The duo was re-engaged by Artists International to perform in Merkin Hall, New York City in the spring of 2002 as part of the Artists International Alumni Winners Series. Birk & Hoke have performed organ and piano recitals in New York City area for the Noon-Day Concerts at the United Church in Bridgeport, CT, the New York City Chapter AGO members recital, the Flatbush-Tompkins Congregational Church for a Gala Benefit concert, and for the Brooklyn Wednesday Music Club. Bernadette Hoke is the Music Director and Organist of the First Reformed Episcopal Church in New York City, and Eric Birk is Organist and Choir Director of the Flatbush-Tompkins Congregational Church.