ABOUT
Duane Large is active as a performer in nearly every style of music on guitar, mandolin, lute, bass, piano, and percussion. Duane is also an educator and a scholar. He has appeared with such groups as The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Royal Ballet and The Pennsylvania Ballet. Duane has performed in several cities in the US including, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, New Haven, Boston, Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans, and in Europe in the Arriège region of southern France, throughout the island of Sardinia, and in Trepuzzi and Tricase in the Salento region of southern Italy, where he is now a docent with the Salento Guitar Festival. He has also worked closely with local Philadelphia groups including, Orchestra 2001 in 2005 for Tan Dun’s Circle of Trios; Germantown Friends Choir in 2008 for a tour of southern American cities (guitar) and again in 2011 in Puerto Rico (percussion); and playing lute with Quidditas in 2008 with curator of the Fleisher collection, Kile Smith.
Duane is also involved with new music in Philadelphia. In 2006, he performed guitar along with Swedish guitarist, Patrik Karlsson, in Duo con Forza for the group Chamber Music Now, performing works by such composers as Jan Krzywicki (Network for New Music) and Jay Riese (Penn). He has also performed works by Alexander deVaron, Heide Jacobs and Brian Ciach. Duane himself is a composer and has had his works performed at recitals and local salons. Duane is the artistic director of a new group based in Philadelphia and Baltimore called Philmore Ensemble. This group had its premier concert on January 9th, 2010 at the Ethical Society of Philadelphia. In May of 2010, Philmore Ensemble performed a concert featuring Philadelphia-based composers, including music from Hilary Koprowski, Jeremy Gill, Allen Krantz and Andrea Clearfield. Duane is not just involved with contemporary and classical music, he plays in several projects of varying styles. He has worked for several years with The Cat’s Pajamas playing electric guitar, mandolin, bass and drums. He is also involved with the Jewish group, David’s Harp (guitar, bass).
Duane received his Bachelor’s degree in guitar performance (summa cum laude) under the tutelage of Allen Krantz as well as two master’s degrees in both guitar performance and musicology from Temple University. Duane has continued his studies abroad studying nineteenth-century performance practice in France and Italy with the Accadamia l’Ottocento under the direction of Carlo Barone, as well as master classes in Germany with Dale Kavanagh, John Dearman, Giampaolo Bandini, Martha Masters, Laura Young and Daniel Cumming. Duane is currently on the music staff at Germantown Friends School as a music history and music theory professor, piano accompanist and private instructor. Duane also has a thriving private teaching practice.
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