The Fancher Zandmane Duo combines virtuosity and sensitive musicality in their performances. The Duo’s repertoire spans from the Baroque dances of Antonio Vivaldi to twentieth-century French music of Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc. Their current touring program “Music of the Americas” features music by Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos, Argentine Astor Piazzolla and North Americans Paul Creston, John Harbison and Donald Womack. With its brilliant technique and gorgeous lyricism, this ensemble is a first-rate concert experience, sure to please.

Susan Fancher is known for her deep and poetic musical interpretations.  A much sought after performer of new music, she has inspired dozens of commissions and has published arrangements of music by composers as diverse as Josquin Desprez, Ben Johnston and Steve Reich.  Her career has featured hundreds of concerts internationally as a soloist and as the member of chamber music ensembles, including the Red Clay, Amherst, Vienna and Rollin’ Phones saxophone quartets.  She has worked with a multitude of composers including Terry Riley, Charles Wuorinen, Philip Glass, Hilary Tann, Friedrich Cerha, Ben Johnston, Mark Engebretson, M. William Karlins, Stuart Saunders Smith, Perry Goldstein, Olga Neuwirth, Judith Shatin, James Paul Sain, David Stock, Ed Campion and Robert Carl, and has performed in many of the world’s leading concert venues and contemporary music festivals.  Susan Fancher is a regularly featured columnist for the nationally distributed Saxophone Journal and an artist for the Selmer and Vandoren companies.  She is on the faculties of Duke University.